Book description
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, youll 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
"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 isnt worthy of defining the future."
--From the Foreword by Darren Murph
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- About This eBook
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Martin Fowler
- Foreword by Darren Murph
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I: Adapting To The New Normal
- Part II: Prepare To Go Async-First
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Part III: The Practitioner’s Guide
- 7. Meetings as the Last Resort
- 8. The Value of Being Face to Face
- 9. Micro-Moves to Shift Left
- 10. Write a Team Handbook
- 11. Tame the “Instant” in Instant Messaging
- 12. Standup Meetings: An Easy Shift Left
- 13. Take Charge of Your Development Cycles
- 14. Run Meaningful Retrospectives
- 15. Kickoffs and Desk Checks: Reduce Ritualized Interruptions
- 16. Questions to Reimagine Your Tech Huddles
- 17. Pair Programming: The Elephant in the Room
- 18. Audit Trails from the Flow of Your Work
- 19. Communicate Tech and Functional Design
- 20. Two Stable Pieces of Handbook Documentation
- 21. Craft an Efficient Onboarding Process
- Part IV: Async-First Leadership
- Part V: Navigate The Pitfalls
- Part VI: Bring It All Together
- Endnotes
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Async-First Playbook: Remote Collaboration Techniques for Agile Software Teams
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2023
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780138187651
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