Distributed agile framework

The past few months, Arjan Franzen, Savita Pahuja, John Okoro and Hugo Messer have been working on a framework for distributed agile. We now seek practices to enrich the body of knowledge for distributed agile teams.

Contribute practices

Based on our own experiences, the model you can see in the overview, captures the main 'building blocks' of a productive distributed team (8 bubbles). For each bubble, we described 3 things: Questions (for teams to analyze where they are), Virtues (how to become a better distributed organization) and practices (this will become an ever growing body of practices, open sourced in our framework). The core team has written the questions and virtues. We welcome you to add practices that have worked for you to our book. To get started, please send an overview of the practice you would like to contribute to [email protected]. Please describe in 300-400 words what you intend to write about. We'll give you feedback on that and then invite you to write a draft article. It's helpful if you add some reference or links to content you have written earlier.

Give feedback

If you would like to give feedback on the overall setup and our framework, we welcome your comments. To give you some guidance in providing us with feedback, you could follow the following sequence/questions:

The framework itself

• What do you think of the overall model?
• Did we cover all important aspects of distributed teams with our bubbles?
• Does the model miss some building block?
• What do you think of the questions-virtues-practices setup?
• What ideas do you have to show the model graphically?
• What else comes up?

The bubbles

• Did we add all questions to the bubble that are relevant?
• Should we remove some questions?
• What's your view on the virtues in the bubble?
• What do you think about the practices we describe (if any)?
• What practices have helped you that we could add? (you can suggest title + abstract)

You can add inline comments in our book or you can start a discussion here in gitbook.

Articles

We welcome any contribution to our project. You can share your views, experiences and models on distributed teamwork. It could be linked to our model or the subtopics, but it doesn't have to. Contribute directly in gitbook or send an email to [email protected]