Description
Book SynopsisThis book records the author's years of experience in the software industry. In his own practices, the author has found that the distributed work pattern has become increasingly popular in more and more work environments, either between vendors and customers or between different teams inside a company. This means that all practitioners in the software industry need to adapt to this new way of communication and collaboration and get skilled enough to meet the greater challenges in integrating the distributed work pattern with agile software delivery.
By centering on the difficulties in communication and collaboration between distributed teams, this book digs into the reasons why so many remote delivery projects end up anticlimactic and provides solutions for readers' reference. It also cites successful cases in promoting agile development in distributed teams, which has been a vexing problem for many software development companies. In addition, readers can find suggestions and
Table of Contents
Foreword 1: Taking Up Delivery Wholeheartedly. Foreword 2: Pursue Ideal Software Delivery. Preface. Chapter 1 Current Situation of Distributed Teams. Chapter 2 Communication between Distributed Teams. Chapter 3 Collaboration between Distributed Teams. Chapter 4 Application of Visualization. Chapter 5 Waste in Distributed Teams. Chapter 6 Self-Managed Offshore Teams. Chapter 7 Customer-Oriented Offshore Teams. Chapter 8 The Future of Distributed Teams. Postscript. References. Index.
