Agile Journal - April 2006 - Vol. 1 No. 2
Globally Distributed Development
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In this Issue
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1. Tackling Offshore Agile Development
2. The Agile Manager: An Agile Approach To Managing
Distributed Development
3. Changing Times: Stretched to the Limit
4. Achieving Agility in Globally Distributed Software
Development
5. Agile at Scale: 7+7 Practices for Enterprise Agility
6. Outsourcing Experience Report – LogicLibrary and EPAM
7. CASE STUDY: Source Medical
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Editor's Note
Liz Barnett
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Welcome to the second issue of the Agile Journal. This
month, we explore the many challenges Agile teams face in
running globally distributed development projects.
Globally distributed development can include all/any of the
following:
-Teams with developers, testers, users and/or
other team members working at more than one location.
-Teams engaging with third-party partners -consultants,
vendors, even customers - to deliver business applications.
-Teams that must incorporate a number of different styles
(cultural, technical, management, etc.) across their
distributed locations.
Each of these types of distributed projects poses a new set
of issues to the already challenging Agile team. Many teams
include all three! In this issue, our contributors provide a
range interesting perspectives and valuable practices for
delivering globally distributed development projects.
I'll start the issue with some common scenarios that I see
driving offshore Agile development projects (and no, that is
not an oxymoron). Kevin Parker discusses the intensity of
collaborating and communicating with a development team that
spans all 24 hour time zones. Dean Leffingwell completes his
"7+7 Agile Practices For Enterprise Agility"
article with seven best practices that help achieve agility
at the enterprise level. Ross Pettit presents an agile
approach to managing distributed development that provides
operational flexibility in even the most complex delivery
programs. Brent Carlson shares his company's experiences
for product development with an offshore partner. And Adam
Finder offers both principles and best practices necessary
to support an offshore Agile environment.
As always, keep your feedback coming! How do you run your
distributed projects? What are your greatest challenges?
We're always looking for input for future issue topics and
themes, and for general areas of interest. Send your
"Letters to the Editor" in the forum at
AgileJournal.com.
Liz Barnett
Editor in Chief
editor agilejournal.com
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Tackling Offshore Agile Development
by Liz Barnett
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As an analyst, I have spoken with hundreds of software
developers and managers struggling to improve their delivery
capabilities. Many are turning to Agile processes as a means
to deliver high quality solutions and at the same time
improve time to benefits. And, at the same time, these teams
need to work with ever-shrinking budgets. Of all the
questions they asked about Agile development in 2005, the
most common - and the toughest - was:
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The Agile Manager: An Agile Approach To Managing Distributed
Development
by Ross Pettit
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Traditional approaches to distributed development impair
flexibility: they don't expose what's actually happening
on the ground in different locations, they lack common and
effective communication channels, and they substitute
"hope" for "managed process" when
reconciling work. Distributed development should be as
responsive to change as co-located teams.
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Changing Times: Stretched to the Limit
by Kevin Parker
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When serendipity taps you on the shoulder I've found it
best not to ignore the intrusion. I recently got back from
an intense trip to India, speaking at several seminars and
to a number of our leading customers. On my return I picked
up "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman and
this book provided me with a deeper perspective on what I
had just learned, face-to-face, with the same groups of
people I had just met in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. And
here we are in the second edition of Agile Journal talking
about Offshore Agile Development.
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Achieving Agility in Globally Distributed Software
Development
by Adam Finden
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In today's business climate there exists an ever-increasing
demand to achieve more from less. More return from less
investment, faster time to market from shrinking resources,
higher quality from collapsing timelines. The impact of
these pressures on the software development industry has
meant that organizations have had to look for new avenues
such as offshore development to reduce costs yet still
satisfy these increasing demands. Simply incorporating an
offshore development strategy to realize lower costs is not
a solution.
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Agile at Scale: 7+7 Practices for Enterprise Agility
by Dean Leffingwell
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Part II of II - Seven Additional Practices For Enterprise
Agility
In part I of this Article, we noted that the benefits of
agile software methods, including faster time to market,
better responsiveness to changing customer needs and higher
quality are undeniable to those who have mastered these
practices. However, these practices have been developed and
refined in circumstances characterized by small, co-located
teams with ready access to a customer. Can enterprises
building applications that require hundreds of distributed
team members benefit from these practices, or are they
forever doomed to large, late, stage-gate and waterfall-like
results?
Read More>>
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Outsourcing Experience Report – LogicLibrary and EPAM
by Brent Carlson
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LogicLibrary, provider of Logidex, has had an ongoing
relationship with EPAM Systems, the largest Eastern European
technology outsourcing vendor, for over three years to
develop its Logidex technology. This experience report
discusses the approaches and tools used by LogicLibrary and
EPAM to ensure effective communication and coordination
between LogicLibrary's Rochester, MN-based development team
and EPAM's Minsk, Belarus-based development team.
Read More>>
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CASE STUDY: Source Medical
by Liz Barnett
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Birmingham, AL-based Source Medical is a leading and
innovative provider of outpatient information management
solutions. Source Medical provides registration, scheduling
and clinical documentation to billing, collections and
revenue cycle management to more than 3,300 clients -- over
20,000 healthcare providers as users. A quickly growing
customer base coupled with the need to continually respond
to regulatory changes drove the organization to rethink its
development processes.
Read More>>
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