My presentation from Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015.

1. Welcome onboard

2. Welcome onboard
 Agile Consultant & Coach
 Globe Trotter
 Love to work with Large diverse teams
About me ?
Lalita Chandel, CSM,CSPO
Lalita.chnd@gmail.com

3. Welcome Onboard!

4. Locate yourself ?

5. People look at me as Divided
but here is -The “Real” me
Try Now ?

6. Yes, We are
“Divided yet Together”
“We are Human Beings”

8. Software and a Woman !
“Margaret Hamilton, lead software
engineer of the Apollo Project stands
next to the code she wrote by hand
and that was used to take humanity to
the moon” image : NASA, 1969

10. Scaled & Distributed Agile - Why ?
Access to global talent pool.
Reduced cost through offshoring or
outsourcing.
Reach the market more quickly with a "follow
the sun" model.

11. Challenges
Communication
Culture
Timezones

12. 1.Communication

13. Comparing Communication Styles
Most Effective
Face to Face with shared board
Face to Face conversation
Video Conferencing
Phone Conversation
Online Chat conversation
Email
Digital snapshot
Overview Documentation
Video Recording
Audio Recording
Detailed Documentation
Co-located
Geographically Distributed
Persistence required
Copyright 2014 Scott Ambler + Associates
Least
Effective

14. 2. Culture
“ If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you
may not even be aware of the extent to which this is
happening.” – Edgar Schein

15. Schneider Culture Model
Copyright 2012 Michael Sohota

16. Hofstede's Global Leadership
Dimensions
• Power Distance Index ( PDI )
• Individualism (IND)
• Masculinity ( MAS )
• Uncertainly Avoidance ( UAI)
• Long Term Orientation ( LTO )
Copyright Geert Hofsete Model

17. Australia :
PDI – 36 , Ind- 90
Mas- 61 ,UAI – 51
LTO - 31
China:
PDI – 80 , Ind- 20
Mas- 66 ,UAI – 40
LTO - 118
India:
PDI – 77 ,
Ind- 48
Mas- 56
UAI – 40
LTO – 61
South Africa:
PDI – 49 , Ind- 65
,Mas- 63 ,UAI – 40
Spain
PDI – 57 , Ind- 51
Mas- 42 ,UAI – 86
United Kingdon
PDI – 35 , Ind- 89
Mas- 66 ,UAI –
35,LTO-25 Japan:
PDI – 54 , Ind-
46,Mas- 95
UAI – 92 ,LTO - 80
USA
PDI – 40 , Ind- 91
Mas- 62 ,UAI – 46
,LTO-29
Brazil
PDI – 69 , Ind- 38
Mas- 49 ,UAI – 76
LTO-65
Mexico
PDI – 81 , Ind- 30
Mas- 69 ,UAI – 82
Malaysia
PDI – 104 , Ind- 26
Mas- 50 ,UAI – 36
Saudi Arabia:
PDI – 80, Ind- 38
Mas- 52 ,UAI – 68

18. 3. Time Zone

19. Distributed Team - Tools
Distance
Communica
tion
Informati
on
Radiators
PlanningPlanning
&
Coordinati
on

20. Sprint Schedule – India & Australia
9:00 AM
2:30 PM
6:30 PM
AEST
•Team Scrum
Ceremonies
•Team Discussion
•Team Overlap Time
9 AM
6:30 PM
IST - India
Dedicated India
work session
• Development & Testing
• Impediment Removal
• Project Metrics
Dedicated Sydney
work session
• Development & Testing
• Local daily Stand (If
needed)
• Impediment Removal
2:30 AM
4:00 AM
4 PM

21. What about Trust ?

22. Tuckman’s Team Model

23. Building Trust = Productivity
Productivity
alignment
trust
communication

24. Team Credit, beyond boundaries

25. Product
Ownership?

26. Product Owner Role
Copyright Disciplined Agile Delivery

27. Continuous Improvement

29. Kotter Change Model
Create a climate for change
1. Increase Urgency
2. Build Guiding Teams
3. Get the vision right
Engaging & Enabling Organization
4. Communicate for Buy-In
5. Enable Action
6. Create Short Term wins
Implementing & sustaining
the change
7. Don’t let up
8. Make it stick

30. Scaling Journey
Basic Scrum
•Single or Few
Scrum teams
•Scrum
Fundamentals
Being Agile
• Multiple
Scrum teams
• Agile
Engineering
Practices
• Excellence
Community
Distributed Agile
• Sustaining Agility
• Enterprise Adoption

32. Food & Fun Connects People !
Our Planet is Round
just like Pizza !!

33. Thank you

34. Picture References
• Hofstede's Global Leadership Model
• Kotter Change Model
• 2014 Scott Ambler + Associates
• 2014 Disciplined Agile Consortium
• http://interestingmarketingtidbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mistakes.jpg
• http://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/07/the-myth-of-incremental-
development.html