Daily Scrum with remote teams

Holding team meetings where the team members are not in the same place is not fun, and it becomes less fun the more distributed the team becomes. Combine inefficient communication channels with conducting a meeting with members who are in different countries and the inherent difficulties can cause the daily scrum heartbeat to become irregular and impact the health of the team and the entire delivery. Here's some tips and tricks...

Why remote engineering teams needs scrum?

Distributed teams are today’s reality. Of course, working with people in one office is ‘easier ’it feels more 'natural', but for many companies 'natural' equal to distributed or remote teams format. Remote teams can be managed more effectively with a strong process. I found Scrum to be by far the best process to manage distributed software projects.
There are many reasons why scrum is the best solution to manage distributed work. And these reasons hold true for any type of work. Let’s look at them:

How to apply #Agile methodologies Indian culture?

Millions of developer's code away daily in Indian organizations. More than sixty percent of Indian software industry is still service industry to the west. The major reason why organizations have problems with adopting Agile methods is the cultural change. We must understand and Address the cultural differences, sensitize them and train on the different cultures and communication etiquette, and evolve processes and practices that avoid ambiguity in decisions. But, sometimes what we call "Indian culture" is actually a problem faced everywhere where a hierarchical model is followed.

How to Run a Remote Team Retrospective?

Having distributed team members is always a challenge  in many aspects in a scrum team. One of the challenges is performing a meaningful effective and with good results retrospective.  This collection will provide some insights on the subject.

Team Exercises for Remote/ Virtual / Dispersed Teams

Team Working in Virtual Environment-Collaborative Challenges and Tips.

Nowadays it’s rare for companies not to have teams dispersed across countries, time zones and cultures. Since this environment is the present and will be the future we work in, managing global virtual teams becomes a necessity to helps the companies be more effective, make a real impact and maintain or even increase productivity. Virtualization is here to stay, and solutions are emerging everywhere. Here are some problems and solutions that will assist us to succeed with managing remote teams. Getting real with virtual teams should be easy otherwise it won’t work.

Agile with Offshore Development - What Makes it Work?

A trend that's been grabbing the software development world recently is the move to offshore development, where much of the development work is done in lower paid. Offshore development seems opposed to agile development in a couple of ways. The question here  is whether agile techniques can be used in an offshore setting. If so how? What are the cons and pros and what are the lesson learned so far for offshore agile experience?

Doing Agile Development with Remote Teams

There are actually many case studies that detail how distributed development projects using the Agile framework practices can be successful. '"Challenging? Yes it is. Easy to mess up? You bet. But there are some simple things you can do to avoid some of the pitfalls of remote organizations."