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Distributed Agile in a Virtual World

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 03:04
The most thought-provoking session, I attended at Agile2009 was on the Distributed Agile stage entitled "Using Virtual Worlds for Distributed Agile". Now, I'm not normally a fan of distributed working because communication between team members deteriorates with distance. Alistair Cockburn came up with the neat metaphor of erg-seconds as a way of captures the cost in both labor and time to get a question answered. These erg-seconds (and argh-minutes) are often a hidden cost when a distributed team attempts to apply Agile. However, sometimes you just can't avoid distributed working and I've certainly done my share of skype calls. In...


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