The document discusses offshore Scrum teams and practices for managing distributed teams. It introduces Tai Huynh from Vietnam and his background. It then discusses challenges with offshoring Agile/Scrum projects and different models for distributed teams including subcontracting, outsourcing, offshoring, and nearshoring. It provides recommendations for offshore Scrum practices when the Product Owner and development team are in different locations, such as using short sprints, daily Scrums by video conference, co-locating teams in the first sprint, and having ambassadors regularly visit each site.

1. OFFSHORE SCRUM TEAMS
Tai Huynh - Vietnam

2. ABOUT ME
➤ Entrepreneur / Agilist / Digitalist
➤ CEO / Consultant Lead @ Nguon Viet Co., Ltd.
➤ Organizer @ Agile Vietnam
➤ Executive Member @ Vietnam IT Outsourcing Alliance
@hlttai
私の名前はTAIです

3. 私はベトナムから来ました。

4. Vietnam is a software developing country.

5. When we are talking about offshoring!
agile / scrum offshoring! A WALL !!!

6. SUB CONTRACTING
OUTSOURCING
OFFSHORING
NEAR SHORING
DISTRIBUTED TEAM
TEAM EXTENSION
THEY DO IT FOR US DOWN THERE WE DO IT WITH THEM THERE

7. SUB CONTRACTING
OUTSOURCING
OFFSHORING
NEAR SHORING
DISTRIBUTED TEAM
TEAM EXTENSION
THEY DO IT FOR US DOWN THERE WE DO IT WITH THEM THERE
OFFSHORING IS A PLACE YOU CAN
FAIL YOUR PROJECTS AT LOWER COST!
OFFSHORING IS A SHIFTING WORK TO A DISTANT ORGANIZATION
IN ORDER TO REDUCE PRODUCTION COST!

8. “INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTIONS
OVER PROCESSES AND TOOLS

9. ENABLING COMMUNICATION
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CHAT
EMAIL
VOICE CONF
VIDEO CONF
VISIT
WIKI
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value
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10. CORE TIME AT LEAST 2 HOURS

11. HAVE EACH SITE SEND AMBASSADORS TO THE OTHER SITES

12. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE CULTURE CHANGE

13. USE REGULAR SHORT STATUS MEETINGS

14. USE CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION TO AVOID INTEGRATION HEAD

15. USE TEST SCRIPTS TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE REQUIREMENTS

16. USE SHORT ITERATIONS & REGULAR BUILDS

17. CODE REVIEW VIA VIDEO RECORDING

18. OFFSHORE SCRUM PRACTICES
➤ Product Owner in France, Dev Team in Vietnam
➤ Scrum Master should be located in Vietnam
➤ Start with short Sprints (1-2 weeks)
➤ Dev Team do Daily Scrum during VN business hours .. and list
down the list of blocked items to the Product Owner for
assistance clearing
➤ Real-time meeting b/w Dev Team and Product Owner via video
conference 3PM Vietnam time - 10AM France time
➤ Product Owner travels to Vietnam for start of first Sprint

19. OFFSHORE SCRUM PRACTICES
➤ Product Owner in Singapore
➤ Dev Team 1 in Vietnam and Dev Team 2 in Singapore
➤ Scrum Master should be located in Singapore
➤ Colocation in 1st Sprint
➤ Ambassadors in both team 1 week / month
➤ Virtual Daily Scrum via Video Conference
➤ Digital Scrum Artefacts

20. THANK YOU