Scaling Agile To Work With
Distributed Teams
Presented By: MD.HABIBUR RAHMAN
ID:107229
Main Goal
• Scaling
• Distributed teams
The objectives are
• Know how to proactively manage dependencies between
two teams
• Be able to scale the iteration planning meeting
• Understand how to cultivate communities of practice and
the role of these play in scaling
• Be able to help teams
A. Use Rolling Look ahead planning
B. Share Team Members
Two Types of interfaces to worry about
• A. Unattended interface
– At least one is aware of the interface, but no one is
doing anything about it.
• B. Unidentified interface
– An interface that exists but that no one has
discovered yet.
C. Use an integration
• Takes on the unattended interfaces
– while on the look out for unidentified ones
• Can be virtual team with part time members
– common up to perhaps a dozen teams
• Larger projects will have a full time team
– may be more than one
• Not a dumping ground for poor performers
Scale up iteration planning
• Iteration planning meeting is the hardest to scale
– Other meetings require less coordination
• Two general approaches
– Stagger by a day
– The big room
Big room
Coordinate Teams
• Hold Scrum of scrums meeting
• Use communities of practice
Communities practice
Create better Environment for
communities
Distribute Teams
Collaborating collocating teams
• Each Teams has all needed skills
• Teams in different locations work independently but
collaborating to coordinate their work
Deliberately distributed teams
• Teams in different locations work independently but
collaborate to coordinate their work.
• Each location has all needed skills
– We could from collaborating collocated teams
– But we choose not to
• Individuals in different cities work together as one team
Create coherent
• Acknowledge big cultural differences
• Acknowledge small cultural differences
• Strengthen functional and team subcultures
• Build trust by emphasizing early progress
Change how to communicate
• Add back some documentation
• Cannot rely as much on talking
• Add detail to the product backlog
• Encourage lateral communication
Thanks to all