Agile Software Development: Remote Teams

Successfully roll out an agile-based remote working strategy for your software team. Learn best practices for effective communication, hiring, and distributed development.

Introduction

• Remote-first culture for agile teams
• What you should know

1. Remote Working

• The rise of remote working
• Remote working benefits
• Remote working challenges

2. Collaboration and Conversations

• Remote working models
• Remote working models: Colocated
• Remote working models: Distributed
• Conway's Law: Building a strong communication foundation
• The intentionally distributed mindset
• Shifting to a digital workspace
• The cost of context switching
• ChatOps: Integrating your communications
• Signal vs. Noise

3. Technical Excellence & Security

• Virtual private networks (VPNs) and firewalls
• Encryption and two-factor authentication
• Version control: Never run a remote team without it
• Methodologies that drive development
• Continuous improvement and marginal gains
• Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
• Understanding technical debt

4. Deploying Early and Often

• Atomic commits: One change, one commit
• Branching and forking
• Code reviews

5. Hiring, Planning, and Measuring

• Creating job descriptions for remote positions
• Interviewing and hiring for remote teams
• Where's the whiteboard?
• Remote whiteboard tools
• Remote pairing and mobbing
• Remote standups
• Remote retrospectives

Conclusion

• Next steps