This talk will give you a brief aggregation of my experiences about what to focus on to get the distributed team functioning well. I´ll also tell the story about the ladybird and how to catch it right :)

Learn from the experience of a team that has been working geographically distributed for over a year. Learn the importance of solving communication challenges using good practices and an including work atmosphere. Discover freely available web tools that will help you solve most of the daily scrum tasks.

This paper is about the process that the Launchpad team went through to improve the usability if a large application, while still having the ability to respond quickly to change and provide adequate support for quick iterations and delivery to users.