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Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – Dealing with teams working across differnet geographies, optimization techniques




Scrum by itself is normally not a reason for failure of projects, it is more likely that there is a process implementation issue, or a logistics issue that has caused such failures. In a series of posts, I am trying to post some of incidents and examples that I have seen where the Scrum project [...]



What are some of the impediments that can hold up a Daily Scrum ? How are impediments handled ?




Part of the routine of a Daily Scrum is where team members come up with the issues that they face which could be stopping them from doing their work. These are called impediments, and are typically problems that are preventing them from completing their work. Once the team members articulate their impediments, it is the [...]



Scrum of Scrums – a brief definition and some details




What is a Scrum of Scrums ?

Well, if you take any literature that deals with Scrum, you will find the typical team size for a workable Scrum team to be 7-10 people (ignore those articles where it is claimed that Scrum has been made to work with 50 plus team members, since that is [...]



How to run a project using Scrum when your team is in different locations – the Daily Scrum meeting




In a previous post, I had mentioned that it is far easier to run the Daily Scrum meeting when you have everybody co-located and in the same room. However, in these current times, there are so many cases where the teams can be in different geographic locations, or in different time zones. One wonders how [...]