This document discusses agile outsourcing to the Philippines. It introduces the speaker and provides an overview of Scrum principles and roles. When outsourcing, common pitfalls include the product owner not following Scrum practices, lack of availability for the distributed team, and stakeholders unfairly comparing burn down rates. The suggestions are for the Scrum master to help the product owner, make time available for questions, and educate others on why burn down rates cannot be directly compared.

1. Agile and Outsourcing
Thomas Mikkelsen
COO, Codelean Inc.
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2. Agile and Outsourcing
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3. Who I Am
• Name: Thomas Mikkelsen
• Title: COO of Codelean
• 12 years experience from the IT industry
• Working with agile in the past 6 years
• Past experiences includes working for IBM,
Maersk and the banking industry in Denmark.
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4. Overview of Presentation
• Brief intro to Scrum
• Scrum in outsourcing
• Common pitfalls
• Question and answers
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5. What is Scrum
This is a Scrum
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6. What is Scrum
• Scrum is a lightweight framework
• Scrum is easy to understand
• Scrum is a framework within witch people can
address complex adaptive problems
• Scrum is hard to master
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7. Scrum Process
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8. Roles in Scrum
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master • Scrum Team
• Development Team
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9. Role location in Outsourcing
Located anywhere in the world
Does this set up work with Scrum?
Yes, but there are some pitfalls
Located in the Philippines
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10. Pitfall #1
Problem
• Product Owner doesn’t do Scrum
• Writes waterfall style specifications
• Tries to fit Scrum into existing project model
Suggested Solution
•Scrum Master needs to step in and help Product Owner to do Scrum
•Scrum Master might even have to do more traditional Project Management work
•It is still important to shield the team from the outside world
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11. Pitfall #2
Problem
• Product Owner not available for clarification
• Due to time difference PO is not available to clarify user stories
• Leading to team having idle time
Suggested Solution
•Make a timeboxed period of time every day, where all parties have to be available
•Have a Product Owner substitute onside with the development team
•Alternatively start work on other work items in the sprint backlog
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12. Pitfall #3
Problem
• Stake holders compare burn down rates
• Happens when someone is against outsourcing
• Compares old in-house burndown rate vs outsourced burndown
Suggested Solution
•Scrum Master and Product Owner should explain that burndown rates
are not comparable
•Product Owner should get other stakeholders involved to remove the
misunderstand to spread
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13. Any questions?
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