We are a middle-sized organization of coaches, consultants and developers – and we see ourselves Agile and Lean through and through, to the core, dyed-in-the-wool, born-and-bread. Well, to be honest, we might be not. Or at least not from the beginning.
This article focuses on the obstacles to using Agile in a distributed team environment and recommends how to counter them with what is called “de-Agile.” De-Agile is tailoring Agile to fit your team by taking out processes that don’t make sense and tweaking those that need to be modified to suit your needs. In a distributed team environment, de-Agile is mostly about removing the sense of being distributed. You need to educate each team member about the additional communication responsibilities required when working with remote team members and emphasize the importance of being open and available.
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