Transcending Cultures, Timezones and Countries

• 1.Transcending Cultures, Timezones,and CountriesPresented by Mahesh BaxiPrepared by ChiragDoshi, NitinDhall & Mahesh BaxiJanuary2010
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3. About Me
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4. About the Topic
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Key Tenets of Agile
Something that can negatively impact the success of an agile project
Large scale development
Distributed development
Command-and-control
Forcingagile on teams
5. What Does Scaling Mean?
Team Size Geographical Distribution Domain Complexity Technical Complexity Volumes DurationPerformance Release Planning Project Management DistributedMulti-Team Projects Functionality Stakeholders Integration Points
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6. Journey Through Agile Key Principles
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Early and continuous delivery of valuable software
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver working software frequently
Collaboration
Face-to-face conversation
Maintain constant pace indefinitely
Attention to technical excellence and good design
Self-organizing teams
7. What you dont want
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8. Agility and Scale It can work
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Shared goal, vision and objectives
Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Implementing new ideas
Team rotations
Continuous Integration
Staying Focused
Importance of Toolsets
9. Shared Vision, Goals & Objectives
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10. Shared Vision, Goals & Objectives
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11. Team Organization Typical Agile Team
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Installables
Continuous Integration
Code Repository
Cruise
12. Team Organization Scaled Agile Team
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Installables
Continuous Integration
Code Repository
Cruise
13. Planning
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Inceptions
Across Teams
Roll-up Plans
Capacity& Schedule
Dependencies
14. Planning Watch out for
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Story size and estimate baseline across teams
Story dependencies between teams
Individualteam velocity not to be used for comparison
Story and feature level automation
15. Agility and Scale It can work
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Shared goal, vision and objectives
Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Implementing new ideas
Team rotations
Continuous Integration
Staying Focused
Importance of Toolsets
16. Communication
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17. Communication Be Creative
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Video conferencing
Scrum of scrums
Daily delivery catch-up
Information radiators
Release charts with key dates
Dependency charts
Program update meetings
Huddles
Knowledge sharing and maintaining shared context
18. Bottlenecks / Constraints put it in perspective
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Story sign-offs
Automation / Regression
UAT
Release Planning
Builds
Check-ins / SVN / Branching
Capacity Planning
19. Ideas Ground-up, Keep it coming
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Idea Wall
Larger Picture
High impact
Allocate Capacity
Communicate Innovation
20. Team Rotations - Ownership
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Collective Ownership
Financial Impact
Capacity Planning
Technical Excellence
Aspiration / Happiness
21. Agility and Scale It can work
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Shared goal, vision and objectives
Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Implementing new ideas
Team rotations
Continuous Integration
Staying Focused
Importance of Toolsets
22. Continuous Integration
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Faster Feedback
Installers
Impact of broken builds
Single Build vs. aggregation
Conflict Resolution
Tool Selection
23. Staying Focused
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Executive
Dashboard
Programme Status
Work Steam Status
24. Staying Focused
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25. Importance of Tools Key Player
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Scalability is important
Change is not easy
Easy to use / Intuitive
Flexibility
Reporting / Dashboarding
Should fit with architecture
26. Scalable Agility across cultures, countries and Time zones
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• Early and continuous delivery of valuable software

27. Welcome changing requirements 28. Deliver working software frequently 29. Collaboration 30. Face-to-face conversation 31. Maintain constant pace indefinitely 32. Attention to technical excellence and good design 33. Self-organizing teams