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A Bit About Cory
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The State of Software
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17%
41%13%
28%
1%
Same Building Collocated Driving Distance Some Very Distant Other
Ambysoft 2009 Survey - Courtesy of Scott Ambler
How Collocated Are We?
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Headquarters
Distributed versus Dispersed
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Groups of team
members in different locations
Dist
ribut
edD
isper
sed
Team 1
Bob
JuliaRich
Joan
Rod
Will
Sara
Individual team
members in different locations
USA
Europe
India
Germany
NYC
3rd Floor
USA
Tampa
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©Alistair Cockburn 2009
6
Kim Pat12 people:= $100,000 / yr penalty
12 people = $300,000 / yr penaltyKim
Pat
Distance is expensive
Kim Pat Programming in pairs
“Managing the Flow of Technology” “Distance Matters”
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©Alistair Cockburn 2009
7
Richness of communication channel
Com
mun
icat
ion
Effe
ctiv
enes
s
2 people on phone
2 peopleon chat (Question-and-Answer)
2 people atwhiteboard
(Courtesy of Thoughtworks, inc.)
Face-to-face is the most effective - Try Video
Paper(No Question-Answer)
Videotape
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Challenges
Communication
Culture
Timezones
IncidentalCommunication
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Self Organization
From Facilitating Organizational Change: Lessons from Complexity Science
Conditions for Self-Organization
Totally Constrained
System
Totally Unconstrained
System
Self-Organizing System
Container Strong, Small Weak, Large
Permeable boundaries are good
enough to let the system self-organize
Significant Differences
Hidden or not acknowledged
Many, or Every Difference is Equally
Acknowledged
Differences that are constraining /
unconstraining the system are identified and worked through
Transforming Exchanges
Many, Top-Down Only, Tight Coupling
Few, Trivial
Meaningful contacts among agents
forming the patterns in the system
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Exercise
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Review
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Tips and Techniques
“Teams need Interpersonal Aggression...”
“...they must be driven to be engaged”.
-Peter Provost (personal conversation)
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Tips and Techniques
•Focus on Communication•Plan to Travel•Team Distribution•Focus on Coaching the Team•Distribution of Work
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/4/a/44a2cebd-63fb-4379-898d-9cf24822c6cc/distributed_agile_development_at_microsoft_patterns_and_practices.pdf
5 Tips from Microsoft P&P
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Tips and Techniques
Simulate Whiteboards
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Tips and Techniques
Use Collaborative Tools
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Tips and Techniques
Use Collaborative Tools
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Tips and Techniques
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
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Tips and Techniques
Keep Reminders of Who’s “There”
In a seating chart, you put Post-It notes with all of the people who are
present in the room and on the phone, adding
and removing as people “leave”
Thanks to Mark Kilby with Rally
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Tips and Techniques
Collaborate with requirements
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Tips and Techniques
Collaborate with retrospectives
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Tips and Techniques
Keep At It!
•Pay attention to what is going on•Look for blockers in Communication•Reach out to People•Whole Team
Individuals and Interactions over
Processes and Tools
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CORY FOY@CORY_FOY
[email protected](813) 352-0233
WWW.CORYFOY.COM
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