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Inspecting Distributed Team Practices
Geographically distributed teams face additional challenges when transitioning to agile development practices. For example, if face-to-face interaction is the best method of communication, what’s the best way to communicate when you are in different locations? Are agile frameworks like Scrum strong and flexible enough to support the distribution? How often does communication between business and the development team need to take place? Is more process necessary with distributed teams? If so, how much more process is just enough? What about tooling? Where do Post-it notes and tooling solutions meet in a distributed environment? How agile do we need to be, given our distributed team situation?
Don’t give up hope…there are distributed teams that are successfully implementing agile practices. Yes, some practices need to be adjusted to the reality of the situation with distributed teams. So how do you know where to adapt and where to leave well enough alone? I generally refer back to the values and principles expressed in the Agile Manifesto.
Agile practices all have the manifesto in common. I think of the values expressed in the manifesto as the foundation of the “House of Agile” and the 12 agile principles as the pillars supporting the house. The four values of the manifesto state that we value:
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