Presentation Found Here: Benefits and Challenges of Agile in a Distributed Environment (PDF)
Topic: Benefits and Challenges of Agile in a Distributed Environment
The benefits of agile development are clear and evident when everyone is in the same location but do these benefits still hold in a distributed environment? This presentation will explore the challenges of a distributed environment and how one can use agile practices to overcome some if not all. The challenges of distance on these agile practices themselves are also explored. Finally, we will look at three case studies of projects using distributed Scrum.
About the Speaker: Stephen Michaud is the General Manager for Luxoft Canada, and kindly provided the following: “I have had five years of telecom software and hardware development experience at Nortel Network as a verification engineer, team leader, and project manager. I then suffered severe SQA culture shock when I moved into software tools development at IBM Canada (formerly Rational Software) as a development and QA manager. Moving from a market reality that demanded five nines of quality to the development tools industry where rebooting a desktop daily is acceptable release criteria opened my eyes and gave me a flexible perspective on SQA. My next stop was with Blackboard Inc (formerly WebCT) producing enterprise level e-learning software tools as a senior development manager in charge of SQA. Balancing the needs of an enterprise, mission critical software product being sold into a market where budgets are almost universally tight led to a very fast evolution in development practices which when combined with the development organizations move into agile gave rise to many novel approaches and solutions. Currently, I am the General Manager for Luxoft Canada where we consult on agile development and SQA practices.”
Meeting Date and Agenda
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
6:00pm Food & Drink
6:30pm Some words of Thanks
6:45pm Topic: Benefits and Challenges of Agile in a Distributed Environment
7:30-ish End of talk, general questions etc.
Location
Qpass Corporate Headquarters
2211 Elliott Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle, Washington 98121
Phone: +1.206.447.6000
Further inquiries can also be emailed to SeattleScrum at Gmail dot com. This announcement may also be found at Seattle Scrums home page: http://www.SeattleScrum.org.
