Название: The Async-First Playbook: Remote Collaboration Techniques for Agile Software Teams
Автор: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Professional/Pearson Education
Год: 2024
Страниц: 369
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.3 MB, 10.1 MB

Reimagining Agile for Distributed and Remote Teams.

Distributed work is now inevitable, but conventional agile approaches are too "synchronous" for today's remote teams. Meetings, ceremonies, and rituals can become unsustainable when teams are scattered across the globe. The result: burnout, constant interruptions, a lack of deep work, poor work-life balance, greater frustration, and workplaces with poor diversity. In The Async-First Playbook, Thoughtworks Principal Product Manager Sumeet Gayathri Moghe provides tools and techniques to embed remote-native, asynchronous practices into traditional agile methods, making remote work more efficient, inclusive, thoughtful, and fun.

Drawing on extensive experience leading distributed teams, Moghe addresses the "nuts and bolts" of specific practices and the crucial "softer" elements such as culture, mindset, and leadership. Short, practical chapters show how to adapt traditional agile techniques such as sprints and pair programming for the realities of today's distributed environments. Whatever your project, you'll learn how to create asynchronous environments that promote success, improve the workplace experience, and deliver better results.

Discover why asynchronous collaboration is crucial to your project's success
Learn the tools, skills, and protocols you need to get right in order to go "async-first"
Map current agile techniques to async-first versions that better reflect today's realities
Become a more supportive and effective leader of async-first teams
Anticipate, navigate, and mitigate the pitfalls of async-first distributed work
Bring it all together--walk through your async-first transition
Access valuable resources, examples, and hands-on templates at the companion website

Who Should Read This Book:
I’ve written this book for practitioners and leaders with a basic understanding of agile software development. If you’re already working on a distributed or remote team, you’ll recognize many of the challenges I describe in the book. You’ll also see how going “async-first” can address many of those challenges. You may also be a manager or a leader who wants to guide their team or organization to a remote-native way of building software. In this case, this book will provide you with a blueprint to organize your teams. If successful, your experiments may catalyze broader change for your companies and clients.

"This playbook will empower you to lead and build differently. All that you need is an open mind and a belief that the status quo isn't worthy of defining the future."--From the Foreword by Darren Murph

“Async is the superpower the most successful distributed teams have already realized, so understanding the playbook for implementing async-first practices is a must-do for any leader moving into this type of operating system. Sumeet has done a phenomenal job outlining that here.” --Chase Warrington, Head of Remote, Doist