Facilitating distributed team meetings can feel like having one arm tied behind your back and one eye covered. But you can free yourself of these constraints using other agile practices. We struggle with meeting tools and keeping people engaged online, but what if we collaborate with our teams to get the most value out of meetings? If we leverage pairing, mobbing, and other practices, we can facilitate successful outcomes with our teams. Mark Kilby will describe a few distributed team patterns, explain how you can adapt the concepts of pairing and mobbing to help support your facilitation...
Mark Kilby
Agile Coach
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Mark Kilby has been hooked on agile since he read Kent Beck’s article on XP in IEEE Software in 1998 and his XP Explained book shortly thereafter. Now, with over two decades of experience in agile principles and practices, he's cultivated more distributed and dispersed teams than collocated teams. Mark's consulting has spanned numerous organizations across many industries and government organizations. He has also cofounded a number of professional learning organizations, such as Agile Orlando, Agile Florida, Virtual Team Talk, and the Agile Alliance Community Group Support Initiative. Feel free to learn more at https://markkilby.com.