Agile Basics

Agile Teams

Agile Teams: Self-Organizing, Collocated and Distributed

Agile development requires teams to self-organize. However, this doesn’t happen by chance. Teams have to be set up in a way that allows them to self-organize. And moreover, if you work on a large project with more than one team the team structure should still enable self-organization. The same is true for global development.

This session covers the essentials for building productive self-organizing teams for small and collocated and as well for large and distributed settings.

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Jutta Eckstein

Jutta works as an independent coach, consultant, trainer, author, and speaker (jeckstein.com). She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an agile transition. She has unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical environments. She has published her experience in many books: – Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (with John Buck), see agilebossanova.com – Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio’ (with Johanna Rothman) – Agile Software Development in the Large’ – Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams’ – Retrospectives for Organizational Change She is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. Jutta holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. in Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.

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