Fri, Jun 8, 2007 19:33 EDT

A success story: using SCRUM with a Chinese offshore team

Topic: Development

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I spoke recently to the CTO of a Silicon Valley based WEB 2.0 company, whose entire development team is outsourced to Venus Software in China.

I asked him about which project management solution he was using. I was more than surprised and intrigued when he told me he was not using any.

In fact, the development team uses an Agile development method called SCRUM and according to him, it renders the use of a tool like Ms Project obsolete.

He could certainly sense that I was not really convinced and let me connect into the online “development place”, in fact a series of integrated blogs and wikis that are used by the team members to meet, exchange information, post results, hold their project reviews, etc.

It works! The productivity is at its best and the developers over-motivated.

I am really inclined to push for generalizing this environment to more of our clients who work with Agile techniques.

The time has come to kick out some old habits, and a good start might be to kiss your project management tool good-bye!

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Wed, Jul 23, 2008 10:02 EDT

SCRUM/ECM - Context please

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Any context on this post would be greatly appreciated. It appears a CTO uses a SCRUM methodology in an outsourced environment and "it works". Based on only this, the community of knowledge on project management is to be thrown out?

What kind of applications were developed in SCRUM? Who was the audience? What is the scale of the project? What defines "it works"? Is the solution developed making money or serving a purpose or did code just come out the other end?

With next to no context at all, I'm having a hard time finding any value in this post.

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