A tight, focused group made up the first public “Agile for Distributed Teams” course. Despite a wide range of experience with Agile and distributed development, students gained several unexpected insights from the course. Highlighted topics included the subtleties of Agile practices from first-hand experience, ways of communicating with distant teams, andhow the RallyDev tool can be used effectively.

I was most happy to see everyone expand their definition of The Product to also include their own processes. Using Scrum and Agile principles to explicitly change the way the organization works — is there nothing that Agile can’t do?

A big thank-you to everyone for their participation, discussion, and engagement in the exercises.