AgileNCR 2010 conference was held in Gurgaon on 17th & 18th July 2010. This largest community driven conference was the Fourth edition of Agile NCR and was organized in collaboration with ASCI. This time the event was based on four major themes : 'Agile for newbies', ' Agile Adoption Challenges', 'Workshops and Software Craftsmanship', and ' Post Agile'.

1. Research ongloballydistributed software engineering Rini van Solingen

2. Who am I? Rini van Solingen, 38 years old, married to Patricia, 2 kids (Bo en Bas), lives in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Technical informatics – TU-Delft (MSc)Technology Management – TU-Eindhoven (PhD) Head in the clouds, feet in the dirt (industry-science) Schlumberger, Fraunhofer IESE, CMG/Logica, Mavim, iSenseProwareness, TUDelft, TUEindhoven, Stenden University Loves to lead, investigate, teach, publish and coach 20% TU-Delft, 80% iSenseProwareness July 13, 2010 2

3. Scrum Management Book January 2011 (expected) The Power of Scrum An inspiring story about a revolutionary project management approach Authors: Jeff Sutherland Rini van Solingen Eelco Rustenburg July 13, 2010 3

4. The Delft Software Engineering Research Group (http://www.se.ewi.tudelft.nl/) Group size: ~25 fte, including ~15 full time researchers (PhD candidates, postdocs). Teaching: Programming and project skills of Delft computer science students ~20 MSc projects p/y in software engineering Research: Software evolution Reverse engineering Software testing Services Model-driven engineering Web engineering Embedded systems Globally distributed SE Close collaboration with industry 4

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6. Adding a global perspective to SE Source: Carmel & Agarwal, IEEE Software 2001 6

7. Four Types of Distance Geographical (Kilometers, or door-to-door travel time) Temporal (Timezone-distance, or % overlapping hours) Language (Language distance, native vs. non-native) Cultural (Cultural distance e.g. Hofstede dimensions) July 13, 2010 7

8. On Culture…. Geert Hofstede (www.geert-hofstede.com) Power Distance Index (PDI) Individualism (IDV) Masculinity (MAS) Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) Long-Term Orientation (LTO) 8

9. Allen Curve – 30 meter principle Source: TJ Allen, The Organization and Architecture of Innovation, 2007 9

10. The Research Challenge for GDSE Our Quest for GDSE research: “Creating the virtual 30 meters” Deep understanding of GDSE issues Both theoretical and practical Real versus perceived distance Technological solutions are available and still sufficient additions feasible and required The virtual project space as “dot-on-the-horizon” 10

11. Although: the Virtual 30-meters…. 11

12. Although: the Virtual 30-meters…. 12

13. …for Software Engineers My tasks Source code Product features Task status 13

14. …Virtual 30-meters: Traceability Requirements Source code related to task Task status Test cases related to requirements 14

15. The TU-Delft GDSE Research Agenda Successfully deploying GDSE in practice Best-practices of companies, success-factors and fail-factors from practice are an important focus in my research Technological support for distributed sw-development Technology to support a decreased perception of distance and increased transparency Distributed agile development Agile methods increase the level of informal communication, coordination and control; Agile might solve many issues in distributed development Follow-the-Sun software development The GDSE ‘stress-test’; if tools and technology work for FtS, they are likely to be applicable elsewhere too Teaching GDSE dynamics Prepare our current student population for a career in which GDSE plays a role July 13, 2010 15 15

16. Best-practicesforDistributed Scrum 16

17. Best-practice 0: If Single Roof is Possible: Do It! Don’t distributed if not necessary 17

18. Best-practice 1: First deploy Scrum locally before working distributed Deploy “by the book”: inspect and adapt empirically 18

19. Best-practice 2: Assign Scrum roles explicitly, define proxies and ensure alignment between these PO-role even more critical and crucial 19

20. Best-practice 3: One team in one rhythm Team members are located on all locations and work in same sprints 20

21. Best-practice 4: Meet Teams are not build up by themselves: actively establish personal relations 21

22. Best-practice 5: Impediment resolution and Retrospective effectiveness remains crucial Meet for retrospectives 22

23. Best-practice 6: Work at customer location at least between 10-20% of the time 23

24. Best-practice 7: Personal mindset is crucial: “what did I do wrong?” “what can I do different?” “what can I do to help?” 24

25. Best-practice 8: Don’t focus on tools: discussion and interaction is more important 25

26. Best-practice 9: Communication & Awareness is no Automatism On this issue tools do help 26

27. Best-practice 10: Fail fast: improve empirically Both successes andfailures are sources for learning 27

28. The TU-Delft GDSE Research Agenda Successfully deploying GDSE in practice Best-practices of companies, success-factors and fail-factors from practice are an important focus in my research Technological support for distributed sw-development Technology to support a decreased perception of distance and increased transparency Distributed agile development Agile methods increase the level of informal communication, coordination and control; Agile might solve many issues in distributed development Follow-the-Sun software development The GDSE ‘stress-test’; if tools and technology work for FtS, they are likely to be applicable elsewhere too Teaching GDSE dynamics Prepare our current student population for a career in which GDSE plays a role July 13, 2010 28 28

29. Example 1: Technological Support for distributed agile July 13, 2010 29

30. Example 2: experiment FtS development July 13, 2010 30

31. Example 3: Routing for FtS Http://www.follow-the-sun.org 31

32. Example 4: GDSE Game Running GDSE company Deciding Lab locations Defining Strategy Customer focus Projects vs Products Advance decision making Teaching GDSE dynamics 32

33. The TU-Delft GDSE Research Agenda Successfully deploying GDSE in practice Technological support for distributed sw-development Distributed agile development Follow-the-Sun software development Teaching GDSE dynamics July 13, 2010 33 33

34. Thank you for allowing me to talk about my passion!Questions? D.M.vanSolingen@tudelft.nl R.vanSolingen@prowareness.nl www.rinivansolingen.nl 34