Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams
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Presentation |
Intermediate
Methodology and Business
Room:
Lab 4
Timeslot:
17.09.08 10:15
Speaker: Jeff Sutherland
Scrum was designed to achieve a hyperproductive state where productivity increases by 5-10 times over industry averages and many collocated teams have achieved this effect. The question for this presentation is whether distributed, outsourced teams can consistently achieve the hyperproductive state. In particular, can a team establish a localized velocity and then maintain or increase that velocity when distributing teams across continents.
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Jeff SutherlandDr. Sutherland is a Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and the inventor of the Scrum development process. He has been VP of Engineering and/or CTO for 9 software product companies, developing Scrum in 4 of them and introducing today's standard Scrum methodology to 5 of them.As CTO of PatientKeeper and IDX, he used Scrum to capture industry leadership for mobile/wireless/web application platforms in healthcare, enabling physicians to enhance revenue, reduce cost, and improve patient care. Recently, he has evolved automated Scrum tools for real-time management reporting, while reducing Scrum project manager overhead to 10 minutes a day and developer administrative overhead to 1 minute a day. This is an order of magnitude more efficient than traditional approaches to project management.In recent months, Dr. Sutherland has been a Scrum consultant to Microsoft, Yahoo, Ariba, Cadence, Adobe, GE Healthcare, and M3 Media Services bringing PatientKeeper Scrum practices to the broader software industry.