Agile

Last week me and Alex Pikulev of Agilix recorded Trust Stories podcast episode, on Growing Team Trust in Distributed Teams. Courtesy of In Teams we Trust website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq82aFap1rc Main bullets are: Growing trust in distrubited teams is hard, but nevertheless as important as in co-located team. Team itself creates an atmosphere of trust in itself. Our task, as a scrum master, coach, manager - is to help and highlight needed areas. XP and especially Pair Programmingи helps in growing trust. Intrateam trust, from the informal side (skype beers, navigating as a guest to your colleagues in other locations, bike fixing via the webcam, ordering stuff on flea market in your city and sending it over to a colleague) helps a lot. More freedom for the team, for collaborative work and motivation. More trust! Work harder on understanding the context and value of features implemented. More details (rus) / tg channel : https://t.me/inteamwetrust_rus/35 Video: https://youtu.be/Pq82aFap1rc

This is basically the anatomy of a distributed team, working on requirements. Key point here is that this is the process working for us, in current configuration, and it’s effective. Disclaimer: Every organization is different: from internal structure to how it communicates with the outer world. So no workflow is a silver bullet. *Disclaimer 2: SkuVault is an ever-improving team of ~50 people, distributed across 10 timezones, 2 different versions, and serving loyal clients worldwide 24/7. Learn more about Communication in distributed teams: Messenger & Rules, or *Why we ditched Scrum, in favor of Kanban in JIRA ...

Last year guys from SkuVault offered me an amazing opportunity to help the company manage a growing development team, create organized schedule, establish workflow that reflects the company goals . For those who don’t know - SkuVault is a Warehouse Management System (WMS). Like a swiss army knife, SkuVault manages and syncs your inventory across e-Commerce platforms, POS, Logistics and Warehouses, providing accurate quantities in order to prevent out of stocks. Headquartered in Louisville, KY - SkuVault helps to manage the inventory for hundreds of clients all across the globe. ...