Skip to main content

Make Your Tele-team Work

Article

Make Your Tele-team Work

Article by Lisa Crispin, Nanda Lankalapalli | Comments: (0) | Mon, 08/15/2011 - 3:05pm
Summary:

Can software development teams that include one or more telecommuters work as effectively as collocated teams? Learn how to overcome common obstacles faced by "tele-teams," illustrated with real-life examples.

Your company has team members in remote locations. Perhaps people with necessary skills aren’t available locally, a key team member moved away from headquarters due to family obligations, or energy costs led management to ask people with long commutes to work from home. For whatever reason, your team now has one or more telecommuters–maybe you are one.

Common wisdom is that having team members in different geographic locations is counterproductive. If you are on an agile team, you might have read that agile only works for collocated teams.

About The Author: Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), co-author with Tip House of Extreme Testing (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and a contributor to Beautiful Testing (O’Reilly, 2009) and Experiences of Test Automation by Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster (Addison-Wesley, 2011). She has worked as a tester on agile teamssince 2000, and enjoys sharing her experiences via writing, presenting, teaching and participating in agile testing communities around the world. Lisa was named one of the 13 Women of Influence in testing by Software Test & Performance magazine in 2009. For more about Lisa’s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.

About The Author: Nanda Lankalapalli

Nanda Lankalapalli is an architect, Certified Scrum Practitioner, and agile coach. He built and led high-performance teams and is an active contributor to the agile community. Nanda is one of the founders of the Agile Hyderabad user group and has spoken at several agile conferences organized in Hyderabad, India. Nanda is part of Eplan Services and telecommutes from India.