Distributed Agile

Teams
Dr. Maryam Kausar

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Current Scenario
● Companies have been using agile methods to develop software for more than
a decade.

● Meanwhile, as offshore software development is becoming mainstream,

companies are becoming more interested in using agile practices for such
projects.

● For some companies the reason is to cut down on cost and for some to get a
variety of talent from all over the world.

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Offshoring
● Benefits of offshoring:

● Economic Benefits

● Political- Legal Benefits

● Demographic and Geographic Benefits

● Technological Benefits

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Comparison of Agile Development vs
Offshore Development

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Challenges in Offshoring
● Trust
● Socio-Cultural
● Communication & Coordination
● Knowledge Transfer

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Overview of Scrum

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Distributed Agile Patterns
● A pattern is generally a reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem
within a given context.

● We define distributed agile patterns as how an agile practice is being

repeatedly used in order to solve the recurring problems in a distributed
project scenario.

● During the course of the research, we identified 15 distributed agile patterns

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Mapping Distributed Agile Patterns
onto Scrum

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Distributed Patterns for Distributed
Agile Teams
● The pattern catalogue helps distributed teams to set a guideline to how to
conduct agile in a distributed scenario.

● We have taken feedback from 4 companies regarding the effectiveness of

these patterns and all agree that these patterns are useful.

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Contact
● Email: maryamkausar.54@gmail.com
● Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryam-kausar54/

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