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Off-shore, Fixed Price and still Agile. (How) does that work?

marco@thoughtworks.com

Introduction to Agile Track
Scheduled Time: 
Monday 19 November 2007, 03:30 to 05:00
Room: 
Glaziers Hall, The Banqueting Hall
Session type: 
experience report
Session type: 
case study
Intended audience and experience level: 

Customers, managers, developers and testers who are (going to be) involved in agile projects that are running in multiple locations. Customers, managers, developers and testers who are (going to be) involved in fixed price projects.

Prerequisites: 

No preparation required.

During the last two years the presenter lived in Bangalore and worked for ThoughtWorks India. He run a product development project that had a duration of one year, a fixed-price contract, customers in the UK, a 3 person team in the UK and a 45 person team in India that was run in an Agile way. This experience report tells about which Agile practices still hold in this situation and which Agile practices needs to be adjusted. It covers topics like how to run a distributed stand-up, when to split teams, how to negotiate scope when having a fixed price contract, how to build a relationship between the customer and the team in Bangalore and the value of weekly showcases. It also covers the impact of traffic congestion and the wild job market in Bangalore.

http://www.slideshare.net/nashjain/fixed-price-offshore-agile-projects/

marco@thoughtworks.com

Marco Jansen is an Agile Project Manager for ThoughtWorks India in Bangalore. He is specialised in J2EE and EAI projects and combines practices from XP, Scrum and NLP to make delivering software easier and enjoyable.