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First Principle of Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Time to Collaborate

More than half of all agile teams are not collocated. They are distributed or dispersed in some way, all over the world. The problem is these teams have trouble living the agile principles, never mind adopting any specific agile practices. Instead of adopting any given agile approach or framework, see how the hours of overlap governs any agile approach you might consider. You can create a team environment that works. It might not look like a “traditional” agile team. You’ll have the opportunity to create an action plan for when you return to your office.

Note: This workshop focuses on hours of overlap because that is the biggest problem for distributed teams.

Learning objectives:

  1. How to see if you are part of a distributed team
  2. How to visualize your team’s hours of overlap.
  3. Discover why “hours of overlap” become more important than time zones.
  4. Learn ways to see and manage hours of overlap.
  5. See your team type
  6. Life cycle alternatives if you cannot create acceptable hours of overlap.
  7. Generate possibilities for your team.

Johanna Rothman

About Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable things that might work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. She’s written these books:

  • Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
  • Become a Successful Independent Consultant
  • Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
  • Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
  • Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
  • From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
  • Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
  • Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
  • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
  • Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
  • Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
  • Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
  • Manage Your Job Search
  • Hiring Geeks That Fit
  • The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
  • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)

In addition to articles and columns on various sites, Johanna writes the Managing Product Development blog on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a personal blog on createadaptablelife.com.

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