The Async-First Playbook: Remote Collaboration Techniques for Agile Software Teams

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, you'll 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 isn't worthy of defining the future."
--From the Foreword by Darren Murph

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「重新想像適用於分散和遠程團隊的敏捷方法」

分散工作現在已成不可避免，但傳統的敏捷方法對於今天的遠程團隊來說過於「同步」。當團隊分散在全球各地時，會議、儀式和慣例可能變得不可持續。結果就是疲憊不堪、不斷的中斷、缺乏深度工作、工作與生活平衡不佳、更大的挫折感以及缺乏多樣性的工作環境。

在《異步優先手冊》中，Thoughtworks的首席產品經理Sumeet Gayathri Moghe提供了將遠程本地化的異步實踐融入傳統敏捷方法的工具和技巧，使遠程工作更高效、包容、周到和有趣。

Moghe基於豐富的領導分散團隊的經驗，探討了具體實踐的「細節」以及文化、心態和領導等關鍵的「軟性」元素。簡短而實用的章節展示了如何適應傳統敏捷技術（如Sprint和配對編程）以適應當今分散環境的現實。無論你的項目是什麼，你都將學習如何創建促進成功的異步環境，改善工作場所體驗並獲得更好的結果。

- 發現異步協作對項目成功的重要性
- 學習異步優先所需的工具、技能和協議
- 將當前的敏捷技術映射到更能反映當今現實的異步優先版本
- 成為異步優先團隊的更有支持力和效果的領導者
- 預見、應對和減輕異步優先分散工作的陷阱
- 將所有內容整合在一起-走過異步優先的轉變
- 在附帶網站上獲取有價值的資源、示例和實用模板

「這本手冊將使你能夠以不同的方式領導和建設。你所需要的只是一個開放的心態和一個相信現狀不值得定義未來的信念。」- Darren Murph的前言

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Sumeet Gayathri Moghe, Principal Product Manager at Thoughtworks, is an agile specialist with 20+ years of IT consulting experience. He has helped clients deliver new products and adopt agile ways of working in travel, payments, financial services, education, analytics, consulting, retail, and beyond. Moghe has always worked in distributed teams, and went "all-remote" in 2017, long before it was commonplace. He blogs about remote collaboration at asyncagile.org.

Sumeet Gayathri Moghe，Thoughtworks 的主要產品經理，是一位具有20多年IT咨詢經驗的敏捷專家。他幫助客戶在旅遊、支付、金融服務、教育、分析、咨詢、零售等領域交付新產品並採用敏捷工作方式。Moghe一直在分散團隊中工作，並在2017年實現了全程遠程工作，早在這成為常態之前。他在 asyncagile.org 上撰寫有關遠程協作的博客。