Principles behind distributed agile development. Using agile and scrum to make offshoring a success.

1. Distributed Development Done Right Guido Schoonheim CTO, Xebia Group gschoonheim@xebia.com

2. Introduction

3. What drives us at xebia Mission: Authority Value System: People First Sharing Knowledge Quality Without Compromise Customer Intimacy

5. Degrees of separation in distributed development Different room Different floor Different department Different building Different company Different country Most radical case: Different country, company, timezone, culture, standards, language

6. Guess what, distributed development is here to stay Now how to be AS GOOD as local co-located?

7. Principles for distributed development, using fully distributed Scrum

8. ACT II

9. Lets look at what makes people tick

10. Daniel Pink TED global 2009 The science of motivation

11. Research at MIT and London School of Economics Range of tasks with different rewards

12. Autonomy Mastery Purpose

13. Autonomy the urge to direct our own lives

14. Mastery the desire to get better and better at something that matters

15. Purpose the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger then ourselves

16. So lets use this to activate ALL our distributed team members

17. Essential nr 1. Build empowered, distributed teams with a shared vision, shared goals and shared responsibility

18. Essential nr 1. – Guiding principles Work in distributed teams with team members in multiple locations. This is OneTeam© Build empowered, distributed teams with a shared vision, shared goals and shared responsibility

19. Work in distributed teams with team members in multiple locations. This is OneTeam©

20. Using the Scrum ceremony to tie the team together

21. Essential nr 1. – Guiding principles Work in distributed teams with team members in multiple locations. This is OneTeam© Client instills a shared long-term vision and shared short-term goals into the team Build empowered, distributed teams with a shared vision, shared goals and shared responsibility

22. Client instills a shared long-term vision andshared short-term goals into the team Purpose Purpose Purpose

23. Essential nr 1. – Guiding principles Work in distributed teams with team members in multiple locations. This is OneTeam© Client instills a shared long-term vision and shared short-term goals into the team The team takes full responsibility and shared ownership to achieve committed results Build empowered, distributed teams with a shared vision, shared goals and shared responsibility

24. ACT III

25. Tuckers model for creating a team OUCH! THIS IS HARD WORK!

26. Essential nr 2. Offshore knowledge workers also require an open culture and relationships based on equality

27. Essential nr 2. – Guiding principles Team members on both continents are considered equal Offshore knowledge workers also require an open culture and relationships based on equality

28. Essential nr 2. – Guiding principles Team members on both continents are considered equal Shared culture and personal relationships triumph over distance Offshore knowledge workers also require an open culture and relationships based on equality

29. Essential nr 2. – Guiding principles Team members on both continents are considered equal Shared culture and personal relationships triumph over distance There is no substitute for working with good people Offshore knowledge workers also require an open culture and relationships based on equality

30. ACT IV

32. Essential nr 3. Transparent results are the only measure of progress

34. Working, tested software at every iteration is the only real proof that work is completedTransparent results are the only measure of progress

35. ACT V

37. Essential nr 4. Building quality in, results in lowest development costs

38. Essential nr 4. – Guiding principles High quality is the secret ingredient for faster delivery Building quality in, results in lowest development costs

39. Essential nr 4. – Guiding principles High quality is the secret ingredient for faster delivery Use the same standards and tools so that it does not matter where you work Building quality in, results in lowest development costs

40. Essential nr 4. – Guiding principles High quality is the secret ingredient for faster delivery Use the same standards and tools so that it does not matter where you work Improvement is a continuous and relentless progress Building quality in, results in lowest development costs

41. CLOSING ACT

43. Autonomy Mastery Purpose

44. Fully distributed Scrum is the best known way to tie global teams togetherand mitigate all the usual offshoring risks

45. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools http://xebia.com/distributed-agile

46. Questions