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A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

Category:General - Books By:IBM Press
More info:www.ibmpressbooks.co...Author(s):Elizabeth Woodward, Steffan Surdek, Matthew Ganis
Pages:189Year of publication:2010

Readers will follow a journey through the lifecycle of a distributed Scrum project, from envisioning products and setting up teams to preparing for Sprint planning & running retrospectives. Each chapter presents a baseline drawn from 'conventional' Scrum, then discusses additional issues faced by distributed teams, and presents specific best-practice solutions, alternatives, and tips the authors have identified through hard, empirical experience.Coverage includes:-  » Read more...

A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

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Readers will follow a journey through the lifecycle of a distributed Scrum project, from envisioning products and setting up teams to preparing for Sprint planning & running retrospectives. Each chapter presents a baseline drawn from 'conventional' Scrum, then discusses additional issues faced by distributed teams, and presents specific best-practice solutions, alternatives, and tips the authors have identified through hard, empirical experience.Coverage includes:- Developing user stories & working with Product Owners as a distributed team; - Recognizing & fixing the flaws Scrum may reveal in existing processes;- Engaging in more efficient Release and Sprint planning;- Conducting intense, brief daily Scrum meetings in distributed environments;- Managing cultural and language differences;- Resolving dependencies, performing frequent integration, and maintaining transparency in geographically distributed environments;- Successfully running remote software reviews and demos;- Brainstorming what worked and what didn't, to improve future Sprints.