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Cultural diversity has become the norm in the software industry. It’s not unusual to work with people from across the country or across the world.

Working with people from different cultures can be a great opportunity; it can also be challenging and puzzling.

In this session, we’ll use a simulation to explore what it’s like to work with people from a different culture.

We’ll look at the ways that culture determines how people decide, listen, and act. And we’ll learn several tools to reframe differences in order to reduce misunderstandings and improve productivity.

With more teams becoming globally distributed it is increasingly important to understand how to develop effectively in such an environment. Such globally dispersed teams face many challenges. Agile methodologies can help overcome those challenges and improve productivity in dispersed teams. This presentation, based on real experience, offers insights on how it can do that. The core elements that an agile methodology should have in order to function well within a dispersed team will be outlined, interspersed with real examples and warnings as appropriate.