Comments on: Say It Out Loud! http://alex.rosiu.eu/?p=14 There are no problems, just challenges. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:07:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Duncan http://alex.rosiu.eu/?p=14&cpage=1#comment-36 Scott Duncan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:04:31 +0000 http://alex.rosiu.eu/?p=14#comment-36 I agree with this and find it discouraging that many companies getting into agile also want to start with distributed team structures so that their only means of communicating is by email, IM, Webex/MeetingPlace/etc. At least they should look into telepresence facilities. But companies, especially the hi-tech ones often getting on the agile bandwagon, are often already used to distance relationships that they see no need to try agile with collocated teams first or, at least, distributed in a couple locations and within reasonable time zone difference. I know of some teams, just into agile for a few months, where they are across 3 continents and the Scrummasters in a couple cases are actually all alone in their location, i.e., they are not collocated with any of the other team members. I agree with this and find it discouraging that many companies getting into agile also want to start with distributed team structures so that their only means of communicating is by email, IM, Webex/MeetingPlace/etc. At least they should look into telepresence facilities. But companies, especially the hi-tech ones often getting on the agile bandwagon, are often already used to distance relationships that they see no need to try agile with collocated teams first or, at least, distributed in a couple locations and within reasonable time zone difference.

I know of some teams, just into agile for a few months, where they are across 3 continents and the Scrummasters in a couple cases are actually all alone in their location, i.e., they are not collocated with any of the other team members.

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