Fully Distributed Scrum: Linear Scalability of Production between San Francisco and India

—The Scrum software development framework was designed for the hyperproductive state where productivity increases by 5-10 times over waterfall teams and many colocated teams have achieved this effect. In 2006, Xebia (The Netherlands) started localized projects with half Dutch and half Indian team members. After establishing a localized velocity of five times their waterfall competitors on the same project, they moved the Indian members of the team to India and showed stable velocity with fully distributed teams. The ability to achieve hyperproductivity with distributed, outsourced teams was shown to be a repeatable process and a fully distributed model is now the recommended standard when organizations have disciplined Scrum teams with full implementation of XP engineering practices inside the Scrum. Previous studies used overlapping time zones to ease communication and create a single distributed team. The goal of this report is to go one step further and show the same results with ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AGILEDC
• Authors: Jeff Sutherland, Guido Schoonheim, N. Kumar, V. Pandey, S. Vishal
• Keywords: AGILEDC 2009, Scrum, Scrum Software Development, Software Engineering, Team