managing multi-site teams on agile projects

A high end provider of Enterprise Technology Solutions

that enable Business Transformation in selected verticals

Synchronous Offshore Working:

Managing Multi-site Teams on Agile Projects

Vishal Somal

Agile Transformation Lead

Dilip Allam

Client Services Director

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29 Years Young

8 Operates in 8 countries

150 Mn USD in Revenue

3000 Experienced professionals

Delivery and R & D

Centers

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As Mastek – Management and Software Technology - we bridge

business and IT. In North America we are known as MajescoMastek.

3 Data as of Feb’ 2012

Mastek: Enterprise Application Specialists

Enterprise Grade Software & a Holistic Perspective

Business Applications across the enterprise

Specialists focused on specific industries and state-of-the-art technologies

We specialize in building, re-engineering, maintaining and managing enterprise grade business applications that deliver business impact

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Major Programs

Insurance Government Financial Services

Main Heading Goes here re

Modern Platforms [IP]

& Insightful Solutioning

Domain & Account

Specialized Services

Global Engagement

Model

Mastek: The Enterprise Application Specialists

technology.

To solutions of business value.

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Agile process simplified…

Planning

Software Creation

Regular Demo/S&T

Retrospective

MoSCoWed User Stories

Daily

Checks

Deployable software

Improvements

The Agile Main Tenets

Individuals and

Interactions over

Processes and Tools

Working Software

over Documentation

Customer / Owner

Collaboration over

Contract / Specification Negotiation

Responding to Change

over Following a

Plan

Agile breaks if the team isn’t in one location

Working environment

Keep going!

If you're going through

hell, keep going :

Winston Churchill

Collaboration enablers

Details of the new working practices

▪ Synchronous way of working, offshore now an extension of onshore

▪ Common development and testing practices used between customer and Mastek delivery teams

▪ Increased Communication between the onshore/offshore teams

▪ Intimacy of engagement increased due to regular face-2-face interactions using Video chat

▪ Quick understanding and adoption of each organisation’s cultural differences to ensure a harmonious working environment

▪ Advantages of “Follow the sun”

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Action..

"You may never know what results

come of your actions, but if you do

nothing, there will be no results.“

"Action expresses priorities.“

- Gandhi

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Early days…