Global, distributed, agile: words that describe Kerika, and WIKISPEED.

WIKISPEED is a volunteer based green automotive-prototyping company that’s distributed around the world and coming together on a Kerika board to design and build safe, low-cost, ultra-efficient, road-legal vehicles.

We first visited WIKISPEED in the summer of 2012, as part of our research into the needs of distributed, agile teams.

We found huge walls covered with sticky notes:

Dedicated volunteers….

And the irrepressible Mr. Joe Justice himself:

Today, WIKISPEED uses Kerika’s Scrum Boards to organize itself (you can see them at kerika.com/wikispeed):

This transformation has helped knit together folks from around the world: the Kerika boards are now used by WIKISPEED volunteers in the United States, Canada, Europe and New Zealand to communicate and collaborate. A great example of how Kerika can help bring together a globally distributed agile team!

(And, by the way, Kerika was a proud sponsor of the WIKISPEED car that was built for the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Everett, Washington ;-))