October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
No one chooses to distribute a team for the benefit of the team. The decision to distribute team members geographically is made for some other reason—to save money, to recruit in multiple locations, to gain expertise in a new region, because of an acquisition, or some similar reason. Distributing a team creates additional work and stress for the individuals involved and creates substantially more risk for the organization.
Iacovou and Nakatsu present a compendium of risks facing distributed projects (2008).
The advice in this chapter has been drawn both from my experience and from the experiences of those I’ve spoken with. Distributed development can be made to work, but a distributed team will never perform ...
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