Update! Nathan’s slides are not publicly available due to client confidentiality. He is happy to share a portion of the material upon request. Just let us know, and we’ll forward on the request! Face-to-face communication, conversation, and collaboration are pillars of a great Agile practice. So how do you have an effective Agile organization when members of your delivery team are remote, or even offshore? This talk explains the Must-Haves for a successful remote Agile strategy. If you are in an Agile organization with remote resources, or thinking about utilizing remote or offshore resources, then this talk is for you. Remote Agile delivery can be tough. So how do we value Individuals and interactions when team members are not working face-to-face with your onsite team, on a completely different schedule or even on the other side of the planet? There are 7 Must-Have practices to implement, when utilizing remote resources in an Agile environment, and we will go over those practices in detail. We will also go over a real world example of a poorly implemented remote Agile implementation and how utilizing the 7 Must-Have practices remedied the implementation.
President - Agile Co-Op
This isn’t Nathan’s first rodeo! He has been around the (Agile) block and he is about the real world, practical application of Agile, because he has seen what a white-paper Agile transformation will do to an organization. Over two decades, Nathan has worked seemingly every role in IT. Developer, tester, manager, director, EA, fry cook, trash guy, etc. It is the culmination of all these experiences that shapes his coaching into Agile transformations or tune-ups that truly fit the organization. Nathan is based in Atlanta, GA. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanballardatl/