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Posted by Deborah Hartmann Preuss on May 31, 2006
Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland and his colleages have just finished work on a paper on the SirsiDynix project, which used Distributed Scrum and some XP practices.SirsiDynix best practices are similar to those observed on distributed Scrum teams at IDX Systems, radically different than those promoted by PMBOK, and counterintuitive to some practices advocated by the Scrum Alliance. This paper analyzes and recommends new best practices for globally distributed Agile teams... It is extremely easy to integrate Scrum with XP practices even on large distributed teams. This can improve productivity, reduce project risk, and enhance software quality. What is new in this paper is that single teams with members distributed across sites can enhance code ownership and improve autonomy essential to team self-organization.This is a very informative case-study. The article briefly reviews the history of Scrum, including the some historical "hyperproductive teams" made possible by use of Agile practices. It then outlines the practices used on the SirsiDynix project, including the way progress was measured. He finishes with some comparative productivity statistics on Waterfall, Scrum and SirsiDynix projects, using function points. You can read Adaptive Engineering of Large Software Projects with Distributed/Outsourced Teams online in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Complex Systems.
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