Using Scrum Agile in remote development

INTRO What is Scrum Agile?

• Breaking down the Manifesto
• Add some Scrum sauce
• Be more productive when emphasis is on developer(s)

REMOTE-SPECIFIC PROCESS Methodology for remote dev

• What challenges does remote development pose when selecting project process methodology?
• Scaling the team/products/scope
• Performance measuring

ADVANTAGES What signifies the advantages with Scrum Agile when working remote?

• Freedom (well, some…)
• ‘Some assembly required’ when spanning many time zones - but very adaptive
• More ‘culturally agnostic’ than many other methodologies

DRAWBACKS What are the pitfalls when working Scrum Agile remote?

• Devs in the driver’s seat - mgmt in backseat
• Not for the faint of heart, new to development
• Nice in principle - requires the discipline IRL

TOOLS Some suggestions and how/why they work

• VCS
• Project Mgmt
• Issue handling
• Chat, Gists/notes-share, misc

As remote work / digital nomads becomes more of a thing it may be useful to see how to get the most out of it - I like and use scrum agile so the session will focus on why that's a good thing (even if there's drawbacks). After the session hopefully attendees will know more about working remote and in particular why using scrum agile is beneficial