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Distributed Scrum: Mistake to have only the Product Owner in a separate location




Given the bad economy and the relentless surge to reduce costs, there is a lot more focus to see how all the costs involved in a software project can be reduced. Over the past couple of decades, a model where the development work moves to lower cost countries such as Romania, India, China, Philippines, etc [...]



Working with remote teams, and some of the issues that come with this distance ..




Outsourcing is a major factor in all software projects. When your projects are under stress to be competitive (and when you see your competitors sending work to many locations such as China, Philippines, India, Romania, etc and reducing your costs), the pressure to also outsource your work can be fairly significant. This is true whether [...]



What to do when priority of your requirements changes in the middle of the cycle ?




One of the questions that I saw recently coming up during a recent discussion was about what happens when you need to change your requirements during the middle of a Sprint cycle. This was a team that had set Sprint cycles of 30 days duration, and normally never had an issue with any modifications required [...]



Scrum – When the Product Owner finds it difficult to attend the meetings (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo, and Daily Scrum) (contd..)




In the previous post, I had written about the Product Owner, and the meetings that are expected for this role (Product Owner and Scrum Meetings – Part 1). We talked about the Sprint Planning Meeting, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Demo; it seems quite clear that you need the Product Owner to attend these [...]