Webinar on Distributed Scrum by Sakshi Mahajan HD

In this video Sakshi Mahajan, Agile Technical Coach with Capital One Bank, Virginia, United States, talks about Scrum – Needs for distributed teams. She also talks about the challenges for distributed teams, the myths with regards to Scrum, and various models of distributed scrum and their solutions. Scrum - Scrum includes a team of around 7+ people, a Scrum Master, a Product owner and a cross-functional team. The Product owner’s responsibility is to come up with a product backlog. Team decides to pick up a small piece and put it in a sprint, duration of 2-4 weeks to develop the feature that is picked, at the end of the sprint, the team needs to have a potential shippable product. Scrum master takes care of all the impediments that the team has. Need for Distributed Team – need for high-quality resources, high business agility, cost-effectiveness Challenges for distributed teams – common challenges are: Language Time zone Culture Lack of visibility Various project phases – played by people distributed across Myths: Scrum methodology Distributed development is chaotic Distributed development increases amount of documentation Various models of distributed scrum – cross-functional team co-located and product owners at a Different location Development team is distributed Multiple scrum teams – distributed Scaled Scrum Solutions: Agile Mind-set Communication, Collaboration and Trust