Distributed Development and Agile – Best Practices Public Class

About the Class

Practicing Distributed Development is not easy because you would face various challenges which would reduce the productivity of the team sharply. Teams are not able to communicate in the same way as they can do face-to-face and as a result it is easy for the distributed projects to fail. At the same time we can not ignore the positives of distributed development in the form of cost savings, 24/7 availability of development teams etc.
Therefore, projects following distributed development approach need to adopt the set of practices which would help the team communicate effectively and maintain the rhythm.
This webcast would cover the following:

• Understand the issues in distributed development and the factors which can convert the impediments of distributed development into a success story
• Look at distributed team models and composition and effectiveness of each model
• Look at the key practices which would help in maintaining the rhythm of the project in a distributed environment
• We would look at engineering approach and key activities which can keep the team on the same page; we would look at maintaining a single tracker, source code repository, continuous integration approach which would help immensely in keeping the rhythm of the distributed project
• Look at various organizations that have successfully used agile project management framework for distributed development

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Keywords: distributed development, software development, agile, project management, outsourcing