Presentation of a paper describing which are the main challenges to adopt scrum for home-office environments.

1. Challenges on Adop'ng Scrum for
Distributed Teams in Home Office
Environment
Marlon Luz – Daniel Gazineu – Mauro Teófilo
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2. Two tendencies: Scrum and work in
home office
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3. Distributed work environments are
characterized by the lack of
proximity between co‐workers.
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4. People sharing the same
environment tend to have similar
behavior
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5. While different places drive people
to different behaviors
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6. Interac've, face‐to‐face
communica'on is the cheapest and
fastest channel for exchanging
informa'on
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7. Home Office is Distributed Work
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8. In Home Office the group is
completely individually distributed
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9. In the so/ware development field,
Home Office environments became
popular with the growth of Open
Source communi'es
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10. Scrum Framework is composed by a
simple set of prac'ces and rules
based on the Agile Manifesto
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11. The heartbeat of Scrum is the Sprint
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12. There are in Scrum only three roles:
Product Owner, ScrumMaster and
Team Member.
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13. The Product Owner is the person
responsible for the success of the
product
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14. The Scrum Master is responsible for
the Scrum process
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15. Team Members are responsible for
developing the project
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16. There are also in Scrum three
ar'facts: Product Backlog,
Burndown Chart and Sprint Backlog
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17. The Product Backlog is a priori'zed
list of requirements, features and
func'onali'es of the project or
product
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18. The Sprint Backlog is a subset of
func'onali'es from Product Backlog
chosen by the team
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19. The Burndown Chart is about
transparency and visibility
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20. The Scrum defines also three
ceremonies: Sprint Planning
mee'ng, Daily Scrum mee'ng and
Sprint Review mee'ng
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21. Product Owner Role Challenge:
It lies in transferring Product
Owner’s vision of the project to
Team Members
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22. Share Scrum Visual Elements
Challenge:
Difficulty to share those between
distributed Team Members
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23. Scrum mee'ngs Challenge:
How to keep a]en'on of so many
people during so many hours across
different places and even possibility
different 'me zones without face‐to‐
face?
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24. Informa'on share Challenge:
How to transfer complex
informa'on between Team
Members when they do not have
opportunity to create and maintain
strong rela'onships among each
other?
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25. Thank you
Ques'ons & Answers
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