1. Going to Sri Lanka Miles Johannes Brodwall, Chief scientist Exilesoft Global

2. Why I went What I saw What we do

3. Part I:

4. Why I went

5. Global workforce Adventure Exposure

6. «The world is flat»

7. Can you get enough people in Norway?

8. Cost of living goes down

9. Communication cost goes up

10. The gap lessens

11. Can you get enough people in Norway?

12. Adventure

13. Foreign names

14. Exposure

16. 14 projects 1-12 people/project 3 locations (+2) “Agile” as a core value

17. Part II:

18. What I saw

19. Going to work

27. Working in Exilesoft

30. Vinodhini TODO: Add pictures

32. Tharaka

33. Daily Scrum (12:30 or 13:30)

34. Coding dojo

35. R&R

39. Odel

40. Part III:

41. The Exilesoft model

42. Transparent Agile Committed Trustworthy Values we respect

43. Transparency

44. «From Norway (Sweden), but not in Norway»

45. Operational Structure CEO Project Director Project Management Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4… Specialized Coaching resources HR and other functional services Quality Assurance

46. Deciding ‘Essential disciplinary’ Domain complexity Technical complexity Team maturity Level of collaboration Communication barriers Agile maturity of the customer organization

47. Offshore project models

49. Teams working remotely - Dev release 1 Teams working remotely - Dev release 1 3 months Teams working remotely – Full version Onwar d….. Onsite Onsite Colombo - Review Onsite Colombo - Review Onsite Mgmt Work- shop Onsite Mgmt Work- shop Onsite Project Initiation Onsite Project Initiation

50. Agility

51. Daily Scrum meetings (Skype/Lync) (and Yammer?)

52. Biweekly iteration demo (Skype/Lync)

53. Our status: Daily communication Iteration planning/demo/Tracking Frequent release Engineering practices User involvement

54. Other training

55. Commitment

56. It’s all about our people..

60. Trust

62. The question:

63. Is Agility in offshore possible?

64. Is Agility in non-offshore possible?

65. How projects change: Travel Scrum per Skype English

66. Culture difference? We speak C#, Java and JavaScript Not all are equal

67. How it stays the same: Programming practices Iterations with demos

68. How it must improve: Domain understanding Technical proficiency This is my job!

69. It’s not about lower costs

70. It’s about a global workforce

71. Add more muscle to your projects

72. Thank you jbr@exilesoft.com http://johannesbrodwall.com http://exilesoft.com http://twitter.com/jhannes The global workforce is here