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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams

Presented by Jeff Sutherland and Guido Schoonheim on Nov 07, 2008 07:14 AM

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Agile
Topics
Agile Techniques
Tags
Distributed Teams ,
Scrum ,
XP ,
agile2008
Summary
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.

Bio
Jeff Sutherland is well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process which influenced the design of the other leading Agile process in the U.S., i.e. eXtreme Programming (XP). Guido Schoonheim is CTO of Xebia, and his interests are Scrum, Agile teams and offshoring.

About the conference
Agile 2008 is an exciting international industry conference that presents the latest techniques, technologies, attitudes and first-hand experience, from both a management and development perspective, for successful Agile software development.

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Whole team issues by Sasha Milenkovic Posted Nov 13, 2008 10:05 PM

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    Whole team issues

    Nov 13, 2008 10:05 PM by Sasha Milenkovic

    About ScrumMasters/Coaches in teams. Did you have two of them per team or one per team, or there was no specialy ScrumMaster role in team?
    Did you had real product owner in team or proxies? Is it neaded to have more product owners when you have multiplied teams?
    What can be the ideal situation with product owners/proxies for product made by Fully Distributed Scrum?

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