agile india 2012 - story of sitting together v4

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Zainab Alikhan Nirmal Merchant

Global management consulting firm, App Dev department Following Agile for 5+ years 300 technologists, spread worldwide: New York, Gurgaon,

Mumbai, Atlanta, Waltham, Austin, Dusseldorf, Cairo, Bangalore,Chennai

and growing


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What is Sitting TogetherWhy should we Sit Together?Why we DONT Sit TogetherHow WE did it.. and how YOU canWhat about continents & time zones?

Today were going to talk about..


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What is Sitting TogetherWhy should we Sit Together?Why we DONT Sit TogetherHow WE did it.. and how YOU can

What about continents & time zones?



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A change in seating? Or a change in mindset?

Room 701

Rita Kapoor

Room 701

Finance Team


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What we looked like before


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What we looked like before

What we look like now


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What we look like now

ATR

ATR

ATR

Start small


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Start small

Make it fun


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Make it fun


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Let the users design their space


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Work gets done quickerI save about an hour a day in ateam room--Developer

Body language, eye contacthelps communicate and developa rapportwhich goes a long wayProduct Owner

Energy and creativity much higherteam rooms like a place

where there is action--Management

I walk into a team room & everyone needed to answer aquestion is there.. issues resolved much quicker--Architect

Its about the peoplesharing and growing is what makes itawesome--UX Designer

T d i t t lk b t


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Staffing in similar time zones

Try to split team half and halfat a minimum have at least a pair in each location

Travel (smartly timed) team together beginning of project; PO splits time during

project

Always-on dedicate webcam computer for body language

Meals over HDVC together to build relationships

Leverage technology to enrich communication


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Leverage technology to enrich communication

Sitting Together


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shortens the feedback loop reduces the cost of asking questions enables transfer of tacit knowledge creates focus promotes innovation builds relationships and trust

Sitting Together

To do it


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start small make it fun let users collaboratively design space be conscious of adoption curve create a multi-dimensional solution lead by example

To do it

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