Are you part of an agile team that’s distributed or dispersed around the world? We’ve seen many of these teams and they have trouble “being agile.” Their off-the-shelf agile approach doesn’t fit with their time zones: the planning is impossible, the code and tests never stay quite clean enough, and someone often feels excluded from their retrospectives and other collaborations. The “standard” approaches just don’t seem to work for these teams---where the team members are and how they work. In this workshop, join experienced agile coaches, Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby, as they explore the...
Johanna Rothman
Consultant
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems, resolve risks, and manage their product development. Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair and was the cochair of the first edition of the Agile Practice Guide. Johanna is the author of many books, including From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby); Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver; Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration across the Organization; Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management; and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. She writes columns for projectmanagment.com and two blogs on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.