Visibility Shift In Distributed Teams Paweł Wrzeszcz SoftwareMill

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Distributed Agile is Hard

More visible in distributed

setup:

•  Value

•  Communication

•  Trust

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Visibility Shift

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Like Scrum

“Scrum does not solve your

problems.

It makes them more visible.”

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Visibility

Is The First Step

Towards

Improvement

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Remote vs. Distributed

http://bob.mcwhirter.org/blog/2010/09/13/remote-worker-distributed-team/

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My Context

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My Context

than co-located,

not worse or better

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Distributed

Setup is

Different

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Value vs. Presence

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Presence at

work is not

that visible

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More important (and visible!)

than where, how and working

time.

Value Delivered

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•  Notifications

•  Recent changes

•  Continuous

Deployment

Focus On Value – In Practice

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Communication Challenges

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Distributed meetings

are extremely boring

Meetings

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Communication Challenges

requires fine-tuned

communication

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Narrow channel

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•  Sync vs. async

•  Chat, Call, Push-To-Talk

Flexible => improve constantly

Communication Flexibility

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Technical -> Social

•  At first: standard Scrum

•  Now: moods

•  “4-th question”

Example: Daily Company Meeting

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Trust Issues

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“They’d be browsing

Facebook”

“I have to go in person”

Trust issues

Impossible without trust

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Painfully visible in

distributed environment

Trust issues

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•  F2F team meetings

•  Retrospectives

Building Trust •  “4-th question”

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All in All

More visible in distributed

setup:

•  Value

•  Communication

•  Trust

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Visibility Shift

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Visibility Shift

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Photo from Berlin – Maciej Biłas

Thank you

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