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Making Distributed Software Development Work
Broadcast Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EST -- 1800 GMT
 
Speakers:
Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Matthew Simons, Chief People Officer, ThoughtWorks
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Do you face any of these challenges in your distributed development project?
• Disconnection on project requirements or estimation
• Decreased visibility into project status
• Erosion of trust among individuals in the project
If you do, you are not alone. Let’s face it; global collaboration is
hard. Because software development is, at its core, based on
communication. Every aspect of a project is fundamentally changed the
moment that team members lose the ability to communicate face to face.
As a result, it’s far too easy for a distributed software project to be
unsuccessful.
And yet, the allure of distributed projects is very powerful: cost
savings, 24/7 availability of development, access to talent and more.
No wonder then, that Project Managers are expected to deliver results with Global teams.
Learn how in a Free webinar on April 8th at 10am PST:
About the Presenters:
Carey Schwaber
Senior Analyst
Forrester
Carey is recognized for her thought leadership in the areas of application development process and methodologies, application life-cycle management, testing and quality assurance, and Agile processes. Her research on application life-cycle management 2.0, a term she coined in 2006, is particularly influential.
With Forrester for five years, Carey has prior experience in quality assurance at IDX Systems and in media-neutral content initiatives at Cahners. She has also held various roles within in the book publishing industry. Carey is widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as eWeek, and Computerworld, and the Economist, and she is a frequent and accomplished speaker at national and international conferences.
Carey serves Application Development & Program Management professionals and plays a lead role in shaping the agenda for all other Forrester analysts serving that role. Her expertise on application development processes, practices, and tools enables her to help Forrester clients to improve the outcomes of their application development efforts in the areas of cost, quality, and time-to-market.
Carey graduated with honors from Harvard College.
Matthew Simons
Chief People Officer
ThoughtWorks
Matt Simons is ThoughtWorks' Chief People Officer. In his role, Matt leads a number of strategic change initiatives, primarily focused in the area of talent acquisition, development and retention. He also oversees global people operations and represents the views, needs and concerns of ThoughtWorkers at the global leadership level.
Prior to his current role, Matt was deeply involved in helping ThoughtWorks set up its first offshore center in Bangalore. From 2001 – 2006 he held various roles both in and outside India including Project Manager of several large distributed agile projects, Offshore Business Development Manager and Managing Director of ThoughtWorks India. Extending ThoughtWorks’ long-established expertise with co-located agile software development to the distributed development environment was a key part of each of those roles. Matt captured and shared his learnings in an Executive Report written for Cutter Consortium entitled Distributed Agile and the Death of Distance which has become ever more relevant as more and more work is moved to distributed teams.
Matt has been a part of ThoughtWorks for nearly nine years, splitting his time more or less equally between the US, UK and India in a variety of delivery and leadership roles. Prior to ThoughtWorks, Matt was a lecturer in Business Administration at Chiang Mai University in Thailand and an IT consultant for GE Medical Systems. He completed his BS in Engineering at Northwestern University.
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About the Sponsor:
ThoughtWorks Studios is ThoughtWorks’ specialist product division, a natural extension of ThoughtWorks’ industry-leading global delivery and consulting services.
We build the next generation of tools for custom software development. Our products are designed to enhance developer productivity and time-to-market. We aim for nothing less than revolutionizing the industry’s expectations about the cost of change and the alignment of IT and its customers.
ThoughtWorks Studios’ flagship product is Mingle, a project collaboration and management tool for software teams.
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