In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Wes Williams and Mike Stout share their recent experience with a large distributed team, the planning hurdles they encountered and how they passed them, and their recommendation: avoid large distributed teams.
With teams in the US and India, how does one make release planning work? What if the team isn't even able to do their planning at the same time because of the time difference?
In a recent survey conducted by 'The Reg reader' the surprise second biggest distributed development challenge faced by respondents, after communication and collaboration, was the varying quality levels between distributed sites. Another big challenge amongst the top five was the difference in quality of practices and processes across sites.
