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CTO Guido Schoonheim, Xebia
Guido Schoonheim is an Agile fanatic with a specific focus on Scrum, organizational patterns and distributed development. In the past Guido has worked as project manager, architect, agile adoption coach, scrum master, product owner and of course as JEE developer.
As CTO of Xebia he is responsible for the technical excellence and the local and international positioning of the company. For this he focuses on the companies JEE expertise using Agile methods and Offshoring. He developed the Xebia model for Fully Distributed Scrum model that is part of this talk.
Fascinated by India with her strong contrasts and infinite possibilities he believes very strongly in the combination of Agile and Offshoring to get the best of both without compromising on either. With focus on people and their interactions using strong guiding principles the cultural difference, timezones and distance are no issue at all.
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Presentation: "Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams"
Time:
Wednesday 14:40 - 15:30
Location:
Kammermusik
Abstract: Scrum was designed to achieve a hyperproductive state where productivity increases by 5-10 times over industry averages and many collocated teams have achieved this effect. The question for this talk is whether distributed, outsourced teams can consistently achieve the hyperproductive state. In particular, can a team establish a localized velocity and then maintain or increase that velocity when distributing teams across continents.
In 2006, Xebia (Netherlands) started localized projects with half Dutch and half Indian team members. After establishing a localized velocity of 5 times their waterfall competitors on the same project, they moved the Indian members of the team to India and showed increasing velocity with fully distributed teams. Running XP engineering practices inside many distributed Scrum projects, Xebia has systematically productized a model very similar to the SirsiDynix model for high performance, distributed, outsourced teams with outstanding high quality. The fully distributed model is now the recommended standard for high performance distributed Scrum when organizations can pass the "Nokia test for Scrum implementation" and fully implement XP engineering practices in their Scrum teams.
There is a full length paper that will be avalable at the session and presentation and discussion will address the following key points:
-Outsourcing Models
-Strengthening the distributed team model
-Process over culture
-Soft factors
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