Fully Distributed Scrum Linear Scalability
Fully Distributed Scrum: Linear Scalability of Production Between SFO and India
Thu, 2009-02-12 15:39 — Jeff Sutherland
, Guido Schoonheim
Level: Practicing
The authors previously showed Scrum teams using XP practices achieved distributed velocity equal to local velocity with multiple distributed teams. Local velocity equaled distributed velocity and production increased linearly as teams scaled up to over 50 developers. Here we show a similar pattern for extreme time zone differences between San Francisco and India. Local velocity was established at five times industry average waterfall velocity. When team members were added in india, production scaled linearly.

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