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Johanna Rothman @jrothman, Mark Kilby @markkilby

This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.

You’ve worked on agile teams before, but how do you use these same practices with a distributed team? You don’t! Taking off-the-shelf practices designed for collocated environments will only frustrate your teams. Or worse, you may even cause harm by forcing people to work unnatural hours because they are in a different timezone. Because your team works in a different environment, they need to think about a different way to work.

In this book, Johanna and Mark take you back to agile and lean principles and help you think how your team can adapt their culture, practices, and virtual workspace to continuously deliver. Three mindset shifts begin this rethinking process. Then Johanna and Mark describe eight principles to guide you on crafting the best collaborative environment for your teams. They also address hiring for your distributed teams and how leaders optimally support these distributed teams. Mark and Johanna provide many stories of how teams they have coached followed these principles in developing their own agile practices.

Successful and even happy distributed agile teams are possible and this becomes your guidebook.

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