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Free the organization: The secret Sauce for distributed teams
Let the team be free to race to their goal! A case study of delivering high quality software with high velocity by a distributed team between India and Netherlands. How to maintain high velocity when distributing teams, how to handle with distribution of teams the agile way, how to deal with cultural and organizational challenges coming from distribution.
In the last couple of years, Agile methodologies and offshoring/outsourcing software development have been hot topics. It is a common belief that Agile software development needs collocated teams, the focus being on team collaboration and face-to-face communication. Outsourcing provides new chances because of the new possible scaling of software development teams, the pool of talent and the cost of development.
After Sirsidynix, proving that distributed teams can be hyperproductive, Xebia has proven this once again, with a principle centered approach, transfering a large portion of the project software development to India during the project, while maintaining the velocity.
This documented case provides insight in the way to distribute teams such that velocity stays the same, keep the agile principles alive while distributing, and providing the customer with high quality software, delivered by a team distrbuted between India and Netherlands.
This presentation will deal with the cultural challenges, the metrics, the core values of such a system, and the comparison with a traditional approach.
