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Offer People Reasons to Love Your Remote Meetings

Community
Agile
Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Leadership

With an increasingly global workforce, face-to-face meetings are becoming rarer these days. In their place, we more frequently conduct business with a very different experience using a teleconference line supported by desktop sharing tools. Tips and tricks effectively facilitating these interactions, an emerging and important skill, are covered in this article.

News about Distributed Teams

Evaluating and Improving Architectural Competence - A New SEI Paper

Community
Architecture
Topics
Teamwork,
Governance,
Human Resources,
Careers

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) recently published a paper entitled "Evaluating and Improving Architectural Competence", which looks at using four models of human behaviour to help assess and improve software architecture competence.

Ideal Architecture is not always about Ideal Technology or Techniques

Community
Architecture
Topics
Technology,
Enterprise Architecture,
Teamwork

The ideal architecture is not always the one based on choices that technically would be the best. It should indeed take into account requirements of different stakeholders, which may limit the scope of choice. Phillip Calçado argues that the development team counts among these stakeholders and that constraints resulting from development environment cannot be ignored by the architect.

Target Process 2.7: Agile Project Management tool for Distributed Teams

Community
Agile
Topics
Artifacts & Tools

Target Process 2.7 has been released. Target Process is an Agile Process Management tool that automates many of the tasks associated with an agile project. Notable features in recent iterations include visual iteration planning, program level release planning, individual velocity reports, and more.

Has Agile Crossed the Chasm?

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Value,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Techniques

Carrying on from last year's survey, Scott Ambler published the 2007 Agile Adoption survey this month. InfoQ provides some analysis of his findings and asks readers how they would approach getting a single view of Agile trends from across the community.

Can Virtual Teams Ever Work?

Community
Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Artifacts & Tools,
Agile Techniques

Co-location is one of the cornerstones of Scrum, so the increasing trend toward non-co-located teams raises questions on how Agile can work in such an environment. David Churchville has blogged some common distributed team scenarios, and offered solutions to common pitfalls of delivering Agile projects using different types of distributed teams.

Articles about Distributed Teams

Railway Story: SimpleTicket

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web 2.0,
Ruby on Rails,
Stories & Case Studies

A 5-year old, Dallas-based company named Spur is gaining attention and kudos within Ruby on Rails circles. Earlier this week it announced a new release of its popular GPL'd IT support tool named SimpleTicket. Managing Partner Alexander Muse was kind enough to share the story of SimpleTicket with InfoQ.

Interviews about Distributed Teams

Per Kroll on Agility & Discipline, Distributed Dev, RUP Subsets

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Agile Techniques

Per Kroll is responsible for developing and managing RUP at Rational. In the interview, Per shares insights from his book 'Agility and Discipline', Agile practices for distributed development, how RUP is changing to support teams that want to customize it, and RUP vs. Agile.

Presentations about Distributed Teams

Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum

Community
Agile
Topics
Teamwork,
Adopting Agile

At Agile2007 we heard the tale of a distributed Scrum project with 50 people in 4 continents. BMC Identity Management decided to build their next generation product, including architectural changes and component integration, using Scrum to handle the uncertainty of their product's requirements.

Books about Distributed Teams

Scrum and XP from the Trenches

Community
Agile
Topics
Stories & Case Studies,
Agile Techniques

For those getting started with Agile, this book offers a detailed first-person account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a distributed team of 40 people, and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time.