distributed teams

Trust Stories – Growing trust in distributed teams (RU)

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Last week me and Alex Pikulev of Agilix recorded Trust Stories podcast episode, on Growing Team Trust in Distributed Teams. Courtesy of In Teams we Trust website

Main bullets are: 
– Growing trust in distrubited teams is hard, but nevertheless as important as in co-located team. 
– Team itself creates an atmosphere of trust in itself. Our task, as a scrum master, coach, manager – is to help and highlight needed areas.
– XP and especially Pair Programmingи helps in growing trust.
– Intrateam trust, from the informal side (skype beers, navigating as a guest to your colleagues in other locations, bike fixing via the webcam, ordering stuff on flea market in your city and sending it over to a colleague) helps a lot.
– More freedom for the team, for collaborative work and motivation. More trust! Work harder on understanding the context and value of features implemented.

More details (rus) / tg channel : https://t.me/inteamwetrust_rus/35
Video: https://youtu.be/Pq82aFap1rc

Ufa IT Management Meetup #4

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This time it was all about requirements. And we hosted the event at our cozy SkuVault office:

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  • 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) shared their way of processing requirements;
    • Us (me and Ksenia – also PM/ BA at SkuVault) shared how we do it in SkuVault, as well as how we used to work on requirements at Storia.me back in the days.
  • Formalizing and Structuring the requirements, by our own Ksenia of SkuVault
  • Tracking changes in Requirements by Ksenia (lightning talk)
  • Tracking time and Estimations by me (lightning talk)
  • Documentation Lifecycle when developing a feature (by me)

And that was my first-time experience of stitching video and audio 🙂

Meetup is in Russian, links are: VK / Meetup / Telegram Channel