Comments on: What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?

By: yentit.com

yentit.com — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:46:23 +0000

Managing Product Development » What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?…

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By: www.webbiru.com

www.webbiru.com — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:51:24 +0000

Managing Product Development » What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?…

Managing Product Development » What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?…

By: Stuardo -StR- Rodríguez

Stuardo -StR- Rodríguez — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:40:21 +0000

I work for a company with the dev team in one country and the marketing and sales team in another. Foreign devs are cheaper, but very good. Not being able to have the communication required between the devs and the product owner kills us.. any comments for this?

By: james ward

james ward — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:27:35 +0000

Yes, it may be possible to do agile projects with virtual teams. However, the same forces afflict these projects as they do on all virtual project teams. Productivity is significantly lower than it would be with co-located teams, probably easily 50 percent lower at a minimum. There is no free lunch, and you sacrifice a lot by going to a virtual project environment. However, the cost does not show up in “real” dollars as it would if you relocated everyone or had them commute to a co-located site.

By: Matthew Heusser

Matthew Heusser — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:14:48 +0000

“Matt doesn’t even participate in iteration planning or estimation meetings.”

This kind of stuck for me. I think it’d be more accurate to say that iteration planning and estimating /meetings/ don’t happen. It’s mostly done asynchronously via wikis. We do have ‘epic’ meetings, and I’ve been in a few of those.

By: Matthew Heusser

Matthew Heusser — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:05:19 +0000

Thank you for the thoughtful response, Johanna. Did I say email in five minutes? I don’t keep email open all day, but we expect an IRC hail response in about 90 seconds.

And we do iteration planning and estimation continuously on a wiki. You’re right, that I’m not an active participant; I’m certainly an occasional paricipant.

I’d write more, but I’m afraid I have a retro to get to …

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:48:06 +0000

Being able to have a successful remote team is 100% about having the right people on board and having the correct systems in place to hold everyone accountable for what they say they will get done. To be fully distributed, self-management and self-motivation becomes that much more important. Not everyone has that. However, do you really want to work with anyone that needs to have a thumb on them to get their work done?