Distributed teams are the norm in Fortune 100 and 500 companies, crossing many time zones and multiple cultures. These teams seldom communicate directly, instead using a point of contact to relay information. While teams don't need to be collocated to deliver significant business value, they must use their DevOps pipeline to their advantage. Through continuous integration and automated testing, stories can be swarmed by distributed teams and completed in a fraction of the time it typically takes. Treasa Overton will discuss how this distributed model allows for faster delivery of business...
Treasa Overton
Overton Coaching
Treasa has been a consultant for twelve years, recently taking on the role of lead agile coach at USAA in their transformation efforts. With more than twenty years' experience in the development of teams, her career has evolved into being a Certified Org Mindset Enterprise Coach. Working with Fortune 100 to Fortune 1000 companies, she has trained more than a thousand people on how to work with distributed teams and why implementing DevOps practices into team norms is a must to stay viable in delivering business value. Both onsite and remotely, she's trained hundreds of leaders, change agents, ScrumMasters, product managers, product owners, and teams.