Presenter: Eelco Rustenburg
Objective:
I would expect participants to start thinking about agile and distribution in a new way, putting people before process, and focusing on the principles of agile when trying to accomplish something hard, like scaling a project or distributing it to India. The whole idea is for people to get to think in new counter-intuitive directions, showing them that software projects can be highly successful and effective and fun at the same time.
Audience: Everybody interested in doing software development in hyperproductive teams, working together with remote offices, doing scrum or other agile methodology could be interested. No prereqs required, even if you have never done scrum or agile you’ll be interested to hear how agile principles work when distributing teams, and what can be accomplished by doing scrum in projects in the first place.
Contents:
In the last couple of years, Agile methodologies and offshoring/outsourcing software development have been hot topics. It is a common belief that Agile software development needs collocated teams, the focus being on team collaboration and face-to-face communication. Outsourcing provides new chances because of the new possible scaling of software development teams, the pool of talent and the cost of development.
After Sirsidynix, proving that distributed teams can be hyperproductive, Xebia has proven this once again, with a principle centered approach, transfering a large portion of the project software development to India during the project, while maintaining the velocity.
This documented case provides insight in the way to distribute teams such that velocity stays the same, keep the agile principles alive while distributing, and providing the customer with high quality software, delivered by a team distrbuted between India and Netherlands.
This presentation will deal with the cultural challenges, the metrics, the core values of such a system, and the comparison with a traditional approach.
Format: 60 min presentation/case study