Practicing Agile In Offshore Environment

Agenda

1. Challenges of distributed agile

2. Tools and processes to overcome these challenges

Distributed Agile Challenges

• Client availability• Timezone

differences• Cultural

differences• Client feedback•

Lack of transparency

• Lack of trust

Distributed Agile Challeges (contd..)

Integration Issues

Challenges faced by any other agile team

Steps in an Iteration and the Tools that Help

Iteration Steps

Feedback

Test

Develop

Planning

Planning

• Communication tools like Skype, Yuuguu

• Wiki

• Screencasts

• Mock-up building tools (Balsamiq Mock-ups, Iplotz, etc)

• Any low-fidelity tool

Balsamiq

Iplotz

Development

• Frameworks that facilitate RAD

• IDE : Support for language and framework

• Continuous Integration Environment

• Issue/Task tracking tools like Trac, Assembla, PivotalTracker, JIRA etc.

• Source Control : SVN, GIT

• Operating System: Ease with using the OS

Testing

• Automated Testing Frameworks

• Test Driven Development

• All requirements converted into Test Cases

• Continuous Integration(CI) Environment

• Tools that integrate with CI to generate cool/ useful reports like code-coverage, Build-trends, etc.

Client / End User Feedback

• Quick /Short feedback cycle

• Integration Server

• Client can give immediate feedback on the functionality

• QA Server

• Deployment Scripts

Summing it up...

FeedbackTestDevelopPlanning

- Skype

-Yuuguu

-Wiki

-Screencasts

-Mock-up builders

-CI EnvironmentHudson

CruiseControl

-Issue TrackersTrac

Assembla Jira

PivotalTracker

-Automated TestingFrameworks

Junit HTMLUnit Selenium-TDD

- QA Server- C I Server

Also ...

• Continous learning programs:

− Weekly 2 hour sessions

− Fortnightly full-day workshops

• An outlook/ inclination towards automating repeatable tasks.

• Process to set-up new server also scripted

Mindset

Seek Feedback

Don't try to perfect things before taking feedback

Open and direct communication

Transparency with the client

References

http://skype.com http://yuuguu.com http://trac.edgewall.org http://hudson-ci.org http://pivotalTracker.com http://iplotz.com http://assembla.com http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups http://subversion.tigris.org/ http://atlassian.com/software/jira/

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