Distributed SCRUM – practical lessons
Published January 14th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
We are running a medium size project distributed across three countries (Norway, Czech Rep. and Sweden) using Distributed SCRUM, with a total of 20+ people in three teams. We learned some lessons on practical issues to look for on the setup, ramp-up, overhead and daily followups which could be quite interesting for other people to learn of. Presentation by Cristiano Sadun (TietoEnator) at Smidig 2007.
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Distributed SCRUM as a Supplier – one year after
Published January 14th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Last year, I exposed some of the initial lessons learned during the initial operation of two agile projects based on a mixed onshore-offshore model. One year after, the projects are concluded overall successfully, and some major additional lessons are learned: personalities and culture matter, hands-on management is as important as ever and agility concepts can be applied to an organization besides projects. Presentation by Cristiano Sadun (TietoEnator) at Smidig 2008.
Additional resources
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Hyperproductive Distributed Scrum Teams (Vidéo)
The secrets of doing agile offshoring with success (Vidéo)
Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development (Article)
Making Distributed Agile Work (Article)
Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development (Article)
Offshore outsourcing with Scrum: Interview with Jeff Sutherland
The secrets of doing agile offshoring with success
Published September 25th, 2008 Under General | Leave a Comment
In this interview from JAOO 2007 Jeff Sutherland and Serge Beaumont discuss the secrets of doing offshore development in an agile way based on their real life experience. Jeff Sutherland, Scrum co-founder, has been helping others to do agile the right way and Serge Beaumont works for Xebia, a company with an agile team divided between the US and India. Agile offshoring is not easy but Serge and Jeff suggests some best practices based on their experience. Part of the answer is communication and in Serges team they communicate through several channels.