It's been an extremely fruitful Atlassian Summit 2018 in Barcelona! Main purpose was to speak about Distributed Teams, however the atmosphere was so cheerful and friendly, that it was more like a fireside chat, even given that my speech was the closing one.
Conferences
My Q&A for InfoQ on Keeping Distributed Teams in Sync
I spoke with Ben Linders of InfoQ (thrilled to be published at that website!) about challenges and communication patterns for Distributed Teams, uncovering bits of my Atlassian Summit 2018 speech. The biggest challenge of distributed teams is communication, which is essential for establishing ground rules on collaboration. Shifting working hours to accommodate each other and team liaisons … Continue reading My Q&A for InfoQ on Keeping Distributed Teams in Sync
Agile Communication in Distributed Teams (with no overlapping hours)
So as you know my speciality is distributed teams 🙂 This post is about what changes does the agile communication face (and scrum in particular), when it's adjusted to the distributed teams. This is my experience, I don't assume this is a silver bullet, but such approach works for me for the last 5 years … Continue reading Agile Communication in Distributed Teams (with no overlapping hours)
Ufa Atlassian User Group
UPD: Rescheduled Jan. 30th -> to Feb. 6th. Recently buddies from Moscow recommended me to join Atlassian User Group Leaders,to host Atlassian events in Ufa, so here I am (after an interview with Atassian)! First ever-ever Atlassian User Group with special Atlassian swag will be happening January 30 2018, 7pm 🙂 Meetup related to all … Continue reading Ufa Atlassian User Group
Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
This time it was all about requirements. And we hosted the event at our cozy SkuVault office: Eliciting and preparing requirements from gathering data till development: Oleg Gumerov (PO at SMENA - solutions provider for a big delivery service) shared his experience on how they do it in SMENA.io; Nur Ibragimov (Head Analyst at modulbank) … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)
2 weeks after we had the actual meetup, here's the follow-up post 🙂 Topics this time: Keynote by me on cynefin and how it fits our company projects. Had some discussion & arguing on applicacy of cynefin when it comes to rough development times, migrations, firefighting-based development. Overall, model was introduced, and the fact-and-experience-based arguments … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)
Agile Turkey Summit 2017
Me & my colleague basically decided to attend Agile Greece and Agile Turkey, and then exchange opinions and knowledge gathered there. Big advantage of my trip was Dave Snowden's keynote, whom I wanted to catch after the speech and bore to death with silly questions 🙂 Agile Turkey Itself The conference (1-day conference, october 19th) … Continue reading Agile Turkey Summit 2017