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Johanna Rothman: "Making Geographically Distributed Projects Work" (Tutorial)

If you have teams all over the world trying to create a product together, you know how difficult it is to create good products fast. You might get a good product, and it's slow to develop. You might get something fast, but it's not good. Agile, with its approach to frequent valuable-to-the-business deliverables looks like a good bet. And, if you already have geographically distributed teams, why can't you just say "Let's go agile"?

But it's difficult to make agile work on a geographically distributed project. We will first run a simulation, based on the way you manage your projects. We will work through the five levels of planning, through several iterations, and we'll even do a geographically distributed retrospective, time zone differences and all.

We'll debrief how the project proceeds and what you perceived worked well and what was not quite what you expected. We'll also talk about how to get started and how to address the issues of corporate change.

And, we will discuss what to do about those issues in your organization.

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