Hussam Ahmad - Experience report: setting up and working in distributed teams/cross boarders
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The document discusses strategies for successfully setting up and managing distributed teams, emphasizing the importance of motivation and communication. It outlines a three-step process: assessing the current situation, making a detailed plan, and executing the plan while continuously evaluating progress. It also highlights challenges such as cultural differences and time zone issues, offering solutions to foster accountability and teamwork within cross-functional teams.
Hussam Ahmad - Experience report: setting up and working in distributed teams/cross boarders
- 1. Decision Support for Weather Sensitive Operations 3 steps to successfully set up and work in distributed teams Hussam Ahmad hahm@stormgeo.com
- 2. Who is StormGeo? Managing Risk One of the world’s leading suppliers of Decision Support for Weather sensitive operations. . Solutions Transforming know-how into cutting edge products together with our customers. Core Competence Meteorology Oceanography Information Technology Naval Architecture Statistics
- 3. Who am I? • 10 years from social care and education sector • >20 years from IT industry – System Architect, Developer – Project manager, Product owner – CTO – CEO • Coaching – Lean & Agile Implementation – Waste management – Communication & Motivation – Goal setting & Achievement – Personal development
- 4. Where can distributed teams help? • The ultimate goal for a business/project is to create profit by exchanging value for money • Prerequisites for success: – Clear mission – Manpower – Time – Technology – Materials
- 5. Ingredients of excellence • Motivation – A reason for acting or behaving in a particular way • Communication – The exchanging of information using some medium
- 6. Step 1: Know where you are • Analyze your current situation – Decide on where you are today • Capacity, quality, availability, cost – Decide on Target/goal • Capacity, quality, availability, cost • Remember: Motivation and communication Goals Current situation Current results What to change? What to change to?
- 7. Step 2: Make a plan • Create a stepwise plan for how to reach the target – Plan should only details the closest steps • Remember: Motivation and communication Goals ? ? Next step ? Current situation Current results What to change ? What to change to?
- 8. Step 3: Start going the way! • Go the way step by step, evaluate and adjust! • Remember: Motivation and communication Goals ? ? Next step ? Current situation Current results What to change ? What to change to? How to cause the change?
- 9. Remember! • Motivation: – Goal setting. Focus on End goals – Goal achievement. Focus on Means goals • Communication. – Focus on End goals. This is the big WHY • Aim on creating great teams – Communication is easiest when working in cross functional teams Product owner Potentially shippable product Customer specific function ArchitectTester Developer Developer Business analyst
- 10. Great teams comply to • Same goals, same agenda • Team members are passionate • They trust each other and do not have to guard each word in their discussions • They are willing to sacrifice for the success of the team • They do whatever it takes to prevent letting their peers down • They do not seek credit for their own contributions
- 11. Main challanges Challenge Solution They vs. we - Cross boarder teams - Team is accountable Cheaper vs. better - Can also be combined - Good and bad skilled people are everywhere Cultural differences - Team building & visits - Respect people Time zone - Distribute the burden Belonging
- 12. Most valuable tools • Cross boarders cross functional teams • Have a dedicated “Build master” who understands interhuman relations, but also technology • Reviews: – Daily standups (audio & video) – Product owner review – Backlog grooming • Available business domain knowledge and access to it. Preferably inside the team • Process retrospectives: Evaluate & Adjust periodically
- 13. StormGeo does it overall the globe. Decision Support for Weather Sensitive Operations
- 14. Gains for StormGeo • Accountability to the organization • Quality increased • Issue blowback reduced • Ability to determine project risks quickly – Red flags raised earlier – Identification of blocking issues, bottlenecks, dependencies etc. • Software production predictability and reproducibility
- 15. No success comes for free Hussam Ahmad hahm@stormgeo.com