Producer: Naresh Jain
Assistant: Jutta Eckstein
With software development going global, there are lots of organizations doing distributed development in various forms today. There are not many large projects left which are being developed without outsourcing or offshoring. While this is a trend in the industry, there are also lots of organizations which are realizing heavy-weight processes don’t work. Over the last fews years more and more organizations are trying light weight methods like Agile.
While there are great advantages to Distributed Development, it comes with its own challenges. Some organizations have tried to apply Agile values and principles to distributed development to solve some of those issues. Some organizations have had great success, but others are still finding it difficult to apply Agile values and principles to distributed projects.
The Distributed Agile stage will provide a platform for practitioners to share their experience and address other people’s concerns. While sharing the current State-Of-Union of Distributed Development is a purpose of this track, it would also be very important to take the existing practices to the next level.
This stage will stress practical applications and implications of distributed agile. This stage will offer 12 first hand Experience Reports, 2 live Demonstrations, 6 enlightening Talks, 5 in-depth workshops and 1 informative Panel to choose from. There will be 2 parallel tracks, which means at any given point in time, there will be 2 simultaneous sessions running at the Distributed Agile stage.
Target Audience: These topics would be of interest to people playing different roles [CxO, Managers, Architects, Testers, BAs, Developers, UI Designers, DBAs, etc] and people from different types of organizations. Lots of organizations are doing distributed development across the globe. It is not necessary that you have an offshore center to do distributed development. Even if your team is working from 2 different offices from the same city, they are still distributed. Another extreme example of distributed development is in the form of dispersed teams, where team members might even be close, but everyone works out of their home offices.
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Timeslot |
Session |
Speaker 1 |
Speaker 2 |
Room |
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| Tuesday | ||||
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10:45-12:15 |
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Conf. G |
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10:45-12:15 |
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Conf. H |
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14:00-15:30 |
Ambassador Model for Effectively Distributed Agile Teams |
Giora Morein |
George Schlitz |
Conf. G |
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14:00-15:30 |
What Makes Distributed Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? |
Chris Sims |
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Conf. H |
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16:00-17:30 |
How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development? |
Cynick Young |
Hiroki Terashima |
Conf. G |
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Distributed Agile Outsourcing: Growing a Practice Together |
Michael Vax |
Stephen Michaud |
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Yahoo! Distributed Agile: Notes from the World Over |
Brian Drummond |
JF Unson |
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16:00-17:30 |
Working With Global and Distributed Agile Teams |
Ken Pugh |
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Conf. H |
| Wednesday | ||||
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08:30-10:00 |
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Conf. G |
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08:30-10:00 |
Panel discussion on troubleshooting distributed agile team projects |
Moderator: Monica Yap |
Panel: Peter Alfin, Christophe Louvion, Michael Spayd |
Conf. H |
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10:30-12:00 |
Remote mentoring a distributed agile team |
Jagadish Shrinivasavadhani |
Vinod Panicker |
Conf. G |
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Practical Considerations for Distributed Agile Projects |
Jane Robarts |
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Maximizing Productivity Across the Globe |
Mark Summers |
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10:30-12:00 |
Distributed agile teams and alternative contractual forms: what works best? |
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Conf. H |
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14:00-15:30 |
Jamie Allsop |
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Conf. G |
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14:00-17:30 |
Updating "Patterns for Distributed Agile" |
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Conf. H |
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16:00-17:30 |
Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams |
Jeff Sutherland |
Guido Schoonheim, Eelco Rustenburg, Maurits Rijk |
Conf. G |
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Growing and Sustaining an Offshore Scrum Engagement |
Edward Uy |
Nikos Ioannou |
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Syed Rayhan |
Nimat Haque |
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| Thursday | ||||
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08:30-12:00 |
How to support a collaborative atmosphere in distributed projects? |
Lars Arne Skår |
Jan-Erik Sandberg |
Conf. G |
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14:00-17:30 |
Desi McAdam |
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Conf. G |
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14:00-15:30 |
Pramod Sadalage |
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Conf. H |
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16:00-17:30 |
Colossal, Scattered, and Chaotic (Planning with a Large Distributed Team) |
Wes Williams |
Conf. H |
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