Growing and Sustaining an Offshore Scrum Engagement

From Scrum team formation and team building, to developing effective communication channels, the mechanics of Scrum do not translate easily for many Asian cultures. By taking a straightforward, sensible approach to implementing Scrum along with applying a well-known team building model, Kelley Blue Book (KBB) successfully created offshoring teams in China and India, in a few short months. KBB didnpsilat just want to "add horsepower" to augment the onshore development teams, we wanted to create independent teams to help our product offerings expand. We will illustrate how and why we applied the five dysfunctions of a team model by Patrick Lencioni to provide a foundation for growing and sustaining offshore teams several time zones away. Wepsilall cover examples of how employing this model has improved our offshore engagements and overcome a number of challenges to improve the sustainable delivery of the Scrum teams.