All About Scrum and Agile: Scrum Master Dealing with Overseas Operations

All About Scrum and Agile: Scrum Master Dealing with Overseas Operations: Often one of the greatest challenges to a Scrum Master is carrying our scrum operations with overseas teams. This i...

Scrum Master Dealing with Overseas Operations

Often one of the greatest challenges to a scrum master is carrying our scrum operations with overseas teams. This is especially true for large companies and MNC’s whose production teams may be in countries other than their head office.

The first most important thing is that all people in the overseas unit should be trained in scrum, so that the system can be easily adopted minimizing the incidence of teething problems.

In a lot of instances overseas scrum teams do not follow time boxed sprints, which is something the scrum master must ensure. Similarly, what is very important for this agile strategy to work, with the scrum master being physically absent from the scenario, is unlimited, uninterrupted high bandwidth internet connection.

Also, the initial Development Team should comprise of some motivated developers who may be able to take the planning and implementation forward even without the inputs of a master.