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How to manage distributed teams successfully

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In Hugo’s workshop, participants will create a best practice board in teams of 5-6 people. The teams go through each block of ‘The Bridge Canvas’. The goal is to share best practices, ideas and experiences. Per block, each team selects the ‘best best practice’. At the end of the workshop, each team will present the best best practices for each block.

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The Distributed Agile Path is a method to improve collaboration in distributed teams. It can be used in combination with any other agile framework. Most agile frameworks don’t provide solutions for the challenges around culture, communication and distance that distributed teams face. The Distributed Agile Path aims to help distributed teams get into the right mindset. The toolset helps teams create clear rules for communicating and collaborating across cultures, timezones and geography.

In this workshop, participants will gain knowledge about the method and experience using the tools. The central tool in this one day workshop is ‘the distributed team canva’s. Participants will work in groups on their own situation or a scenario. Each team goes through each block of the distributed team canvas’. By actively working through each block as a team, participants will learn how to apply the canvas to their own team. People will learn from each other by sharing practices, ideas and experiences.

OUTLINE
  • Introduction to The Distributed Agile Path
  • Starting up: Creating the right mindset
  • Aligning: Filling the distributed team canvas
  • Cultural understanding: the empathy plan
  • Working: Communicating & delivering value
  • Process Management
  • Workshop retrospective & action plan


AUDIENCE
 
  • IT managers delivering projects with dedicated teams
  • Software team members (project manager, scrum master, product owner, programmer) that face challenges in distributed team work
  • Agile practitioners who want to help their customers work better in distributed setups


Key learning points:
  • Practical experiences from seasoned distributed team managers/coaches
  • Learn how to communicate smoothly across culture, distance and time
  • How to bridge cultural differences in distributed teams
  • How to apply agile methods to a distributed setting



Hugo Messer - is a successful entrepreneur with tremendous experience running distributed software development teams. For ten years he has been running Bridge Global, a fully distributed offshore software company with developers all over the world. Based on this experiences he helps other distributed teams collaborate better by organizing workshops. He has written 6 books about managing remote teams. Recently he set up Ekipa.co, a global market place for software teams.

Gaertner Hans
Hans Gaertner - Managing Partner at Radical Inclusion Inc., has 20 years of experience as business consultant and coach. He also held senior management positions in different industries (banking, shipbuilding, consulting) and is very familiar with collaboration challenges from both internal and external perspectives. Over the last seven years he has specialized in training and supporting distributed teams that work together virtually. He strongly believes that strategic, intercultural and very hands-on collaboration aspects need to be jointly considered to make distributed collaboration successful. 

 

Corporate edition

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