Agile Distributed Development with Different Time Zones

Summary:

Wipro recently completed a distributed agile transformation of a one-hundred-person team distributed throughout the UK, USA, Germany, and India within a four-month window. The engagement was a managed services model. The experience, recorded in this paper, confers why the agile process was chosen, how the transformation was accomplished, what challenges came up, and how retrospectives were used.

About the author

Gauravdeep Kaberwal

I have experience in agile consulting for last 6 yrs and have more than 8 years of experience in IT. Presently working with Infosys in Enterprise Quality Consulting (EQS) as a Senior Consultant, in India. I have experience in IT process consulting working in leadership roles such as Process Coach, Project Mentor, Trainer and Assessor for eminent Europe and North America based clients. I have specific expertise is in Process Management consulting delivered based on software methodologies PMO, ITIL, CMMI, AGILE and AUP for large IT transformation and total outsourcing deals.