A few years ago, collocated teams were the norm and it was unusual for a team
to be geographically distributed. By now, the reverse must be true. Personally, I’m
now surprised when someone tells me that everyone on the team works in the
same building. With the prevalence of teams that are spread across the globe, or
at least across a couple of time zones, it is important to consider how well Scrum
works when a team is geographically distributed.
Chapter Contents
- Decide How to Distribute Multiple Teams
- Create Coherence
- Acknowledge Significant Cultural Differences
- Acknowledge the Small Cultural Differences
- Strengthen Functional and Team Subcultures
- Build Trust by Emphasizing Early Progress
- Get Together in Person
- Seeding Visits
- Contact Visits
- Traveling Ambassadors
- Change How You Communicate
- Adding Back Some Documentation
- Adding Detail to the Product Backlog
- Encourage Lateral Communication
- Meetings
- General Advice
- Sprint Planning Meeting
- Daily Scrum
- Scrum of Scrums
- Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
- Proceed with Caution
- Additional Reading