This two-part webinar series is designed to address the concerns and risks that come with communication on a distributed project. The goal of this series is to provide immediate support and detailed suggestions to project teams struggling to work in a distributed environment.
Speaker
Mark Rickmeier has over 9 years' experience in the IT industry. As a project manager for many years, Mark specialized in Agile transformation and project governance with a focus on metrics and measurement. He has extensive distributed development experience working with project teams in Australia, India, China, Canada, the UK, and the US. His industry background includes equipment leasing, retail, insurance, healthcare and retail banking. He is currently a Client Principal at ThoughtWorks.
Part 1: Tools for Distributed Agile Meetings, presented on Dec. 1
In Part 1 of this series, Mark Rickmeier will review and rate the best of breed tools that are available in the market to address the key communication challenges faced with distributed development. We will evaluate a variety of tools and what they do for your project, including: Instant Messenger/Chat Tools, Desktop Sharing, VOIP, Web Conferencing, Wiki/Collaboration Tools, Issue/Task Tracking Tools, and Application Lifecycle Management.
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Part 2: Facilitating Distributed Agile Meetings, presented on Jan. 12
Part 2 of this series will build on the tool recommendations from Part 1 to focus on process and innovations used by effective project teams to facilitate four typical Agile meetings between remote locations: Distributed Release Planning Sessions, Distributed Iteration Planning Meetings, Distributed Stand Ups, and Distributed Retrospectives.