Classic agile development assumes co-location, but the world is quickly becoming decentralised and remote working is becoming more commonplace. We need new practices to help overcome the new problems that remote collaboration brings.

At Cucumber Ltd we have team of experienced XP practitioners building our SaaS product Cucumber Pro. To help us quickly and effectively build a team with a shared understanding of the product goals we chose mob programming. But we’re a distributed team.

In this talk you’ll hear how we overcame the challenges involved with team members distributed across time and space, and how we deal with the intensity of remote collaboration. We’ll talk about the tools that helped us, and the ones that didn’t. You’ll learn how we approached continuous improvement and the new practices we’ve evolved along the way.