Way back in 2008, when I started working in Agile, there was enough material available on Scrum and. However when it came to distributed aspect of it, people were still struggling with it. Based on working for years in this fashion, I realised that communication, trust, transparency and innovation are the core fundamental values towards successful distributed Agile implementation.

In other words, as most of the problems were caused by softer aspects of skills (misunderstanding, miscommunication, non-availability of people, mistrust etc), humanizing the distributed team experience looked like the key for successful distributed Agile implementation.

Based on working with distributed teams over the years, we discovered some distributed Agile patterns. Some of them got blogged from time to time. Those already available in form of blogs are as follows:

• Distributed Pair Programming
• Local Retrospective
• Agile way of documentation
• One Team Multiple Projects
• The nut/bolt pattern for distributed Scrum development
• Chain-Link Pattern
• Virtual One Room

The session is to share the these patterns and more (when to go for distributed Agile and when not etc)