ThoughtWorks Webinar | Succeeding with Offshore Product Development
Practices of high performing teams
Few, if any, successful software-based products miraculously emerge from an initial design followed by 'heads-down' development. Rather, most successful software products evolve via collaboration amongst many stakeholders and responsiveness to frequent feedback and changing market conditions. This webinar explored how the principles and practices of agile and lean development have been applied by globally distributed teams to enable the collaboration and responsiveness required for successful software product development.
In an earlier webinar on 'Succeeding with Offshore Product Development: Practical advice for getting started' we focused on Inception, that part of the product development life cycle when product vision and priorities are established. In this subsequent webinar, we focused on the iterative-incremental development that follows. In particular, we addressed the cultural, communication and logistical challenges that are exacerbated by globally distributed teams. We not only showed how these can be overcome, but how the result can be a process that is superior to that achieved by many co-located teams.
Speaker Profiles
Greg Reiser, ThoughtWorks
Greg has over 20 years of experience as a developer, project manager and consultant. He has worked in banking, insurance, publishing, logistics, health-care and telecommunications business domains. Greg is currently focused on helping organizations get the most out of their global development capabilities.
Kedar Bapat, Thoughtworks
Kedar Bapat is a senior Project Manager at ThoughtWorks with over 12 years of experience as a developer, business analyst and project manager. He has worked for applying IT solutions in varied industry sectors such as Banking & Financial Services, Capital Markets, Corporate HR staffing, Online Retail, e-Commerce and the Rail Industry. Kedar likes to focus on nurturing client relationships and delivering large scale, complex IT solutions in a distributed and fast paced environment.
Satya Narayan, ThoughtWorks
Satya Narayan is a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks with more than 6 years of experience in developing software applications. During these years he has played many roles, including that of a passionate developer, product manager and technical evangelist. He has also been part of a variety of projects ranging from small business products to large scale offshore development.
Webinar
Wednesday, 30th June 2010
12:00 pm EST (New York) / 5:00 pm GMT / 9:00 am PST
Wednesday, 30th June 2010
12:00 pm EST (New York) / 5:00 pm GMT / 9:00 am PST
Also in this series
Practical advice for getting started
Offshore development is now commonplace for just about everything from legacy maintenance to enterprise application development. One area where the notion of offshore continues to encounter resistance is product development, as many product managers consider it too risky to develop the "crown jewels" of their organizations in locations that are far removed in terms of both distance and time zones.
Lessons learned
In this concluding webinar, we look back from inception to delivery of both large distributed projects, and draw out key lessons learned. The format is of a live facilitated retrospective, which distills key insights on what made these two teams successful, as well as investigating what could have made things work even better.
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