Speaker: Mads Troels Hansen
Talk: “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”

Mads Troels Hansen
Denmark, @BestBrains ApS

Agile and Lean Coach at BestBrains, Denmark. Mads has more than 15 years of experience with software development, as developer, project manager, product manager, CIO and CTO. Mads is very experienced in delivering high business value using Scrum, Agile and Lean and has worked with Scrum and effective distributed development for many years. Mads has many years of experience in Product Management with both local and distributed teams. He is also CSM, CSPO and CSP. For more info, visit www.bestbrains.biz or www.twitter.com/madsth.

Talk: “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”

Scaling the development organization with distributed teams can be very challenging. In this talk you will learn how to deliver higher business value with lower cost for distributed teams. Experience from failure and success in different offshore projects since 2005, are gathered in a collection of 8 patterns and specific techniques.

From an offshore perspective, you can use the techniques in your own projects and make them more successful. You will also get inspiration on how you can solve your own distributed problems.

In the talk, you will hear about

• 8 patterns for successful distributed development.
• Specific techniques to use right away.
• Distributed challenges and how to get them solved.
• How the patterns are working together.
• Many examples from different projects.

This talk will use a lot of visual elements, pictures and stories from the trenches.