Distributed Scrum
This podcast interviews Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings where the team is spread across different locations, different buildings or even different countries and continents.
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Can Distributed Teams Be Effective
Have you worked on a distributed team where management apparently thought it should hobble local members to make everybody equally frustrated and ineffective? The Agile Manifesto principles say that: 1) Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. 2) The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
An Example of Distributed Scrum
In this blog post, Joseph Little proposes a set of suggestions and questions that should help you to think on how you should make decisions about distributed scrum.
Distributed Agile Teams
The article “Distributed Teams and Agile” by Craig Knighton shares experiences and a model to organize and operate distributed Agile teams. It conveys a simple main message: Agile is the best way to manage distributed software development teams.
Top Ten Tips for Distributed Scrum Team Teleconferences
After acting as scrum master for several months on a distributed team with people in six different locations, three different time zones and two different countries, Jon Archer offers ten tips to help get past those inevitable awkward silences in Scrum teleconferences.
Large, Multisite and Offshore Agile Projects
“After working for some years in the domains of large, multisite, and offshore development, we have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don’t’ do it.” “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum”, Craig Larman & Bas Vodde, Addison -Wesley
Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams
Written by Jeff Sutherland, Anton Victorov, and Jack Blount, “Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams” analyzes and recommends new best practices for globally distributed agile teams. Toyota routinely achieves four times the productivity and twelve times the quality of competitors. Can Scrum do the same for globally distributed teams? Two agile companies, SirsiDynix using Scrum, and StarSoft Development Labs using Scrum with some XP engineering practices, achieved comparable performance developing a Java application with over 1,000,000 lines of code. SirsiDynix best practices are similar to those observed on distributed Scrum teams at IDX Systems, radically different than those promoted by PMBOK, and counterintuitive to some practices advocated by the Scrum Alliance.