Happy New Year! Agile Sheffield kicks off 2017 with a very popular topic that has been previously requested by our community.
The Talk: Apart Yet Together: The Tales of Delivering Value Remotely.
The Synopsis: We've heard it a thousand times: Agile works best when you're all in the same proximity. But sometimes that's not possible - or even desirable. When talented developers can be had for a fraction of the cost on the other side of the world, how can you take advantage of that, and yet maintain team cohesion and agility?
When the best talent can be drawn from across the world, with individuals who do their best work from the beach, the ranch, or the family home, how can they stay productive and focused as part of an agile team? What might be some of the gotchas to look out for?
The Speakers: Muhammad Meghji, ScrumMaster/Agile Coach & Rob Redpath, Product Owner.
The Event format:
6.30 - Rock up, grab a drink, network, socialise
7.15 - Kick off with any community news, shout outs, shameless plugs :)
7.20 - Main event: Apart Yet Together: The Tales of Delivering Value Remotely by Muhammad Meghji and Rob Redpath
8.20 - Networking
9 - Wrap up
The Sponsors:
Drinks are provided courtesy of our sponsor Affecto.
More about the speakers:
Muhammad Meghji
Twitter: @mameghji
Muhammad is a people centred Certified ScrumMaster and Agile Coach who is passionate and self-motivated with over 9 years of experience working with teams delivering high value software using Agile principles.
With in-depth knowledge of various flavours of Agile, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP, he promotes and encourages relevant best practices from each methodology leading teams towards small and incremental improvements whilst building high performance teams.
With solid real world experience of both local and geographically distributed teams, he is delivery focused, working closely with teams, product owners and stakeholders to ensure delivery of sprint goals and commitments whilst taking the department on a value driven Agile transformational journey.
Rob Redpath
Twitter: @robredpath
Rob took a remote job 3 years ago and hasn't looked back! Across being a developer, product owner and coach to his teams, Rob's spend the last few years enjoying the challenges of delivering value remotely and taking advantage of the opportunities that it presents.
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