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Will the Scrum framework works in larger projects with virtual teams?

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Frank Leslie Pinto Senior Project Manager| Manipal Technologies Limited Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Please share your opinion on this
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Milind Patil Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Yes. It works but with lot of exercise, changes, coordination and key documents
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
Yes it can be done. Are you choosing Scrum for the sake of Scrum though or is Scrum the best choice for your situation?
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1 reply by Frank Leslie Pinto
Feb 07, 2019 11:32 PM
Frank Leslie Pinto
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Scrum is the best choice for my project, but I feel that larger the team, more complicated it is.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Frank, you need powerful software and fast access to inform all virtual team in a different time frame that's your challenge specially if the difference 12 hours you are looking for day v/s night.
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Agreed with Riyadh
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Besides I use it in a lot of types of projects right now we are using it in a critical project that take place in Venezuela: external and internal conditions are complicated, people is multitasking, three teams distributed in three different countries, challenge time frame due to the need to put the solution in place as soon as possible to keep the operation up and running. And it is working.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Frank -

Virtual is not the issue, but larger could be. If the product cannot be delivered by a single small Scrum team (10 as per the Scrum Guide, but definitely 13 in practice) then you will have multiple teams collaborating together and will need to consider augmenting the guidance in the Scrum Guide with scaling practices (e.g. Scrum of Scrums).

Kiron
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Frank Leslie Pinto Senior Project Manager| Manipal Technologies Limited Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Feb 06, 2019 11:08 PM
Replying to Joshua Render
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Yes it can be done. Are you choosing Scrum for the sake of Scrum though or is Scrum the best choice for your situation?
Scrum is the best choice for my project, but I feel that larger the team, more complicated it is.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
It does, check their Nexus Guide on scrum.org !
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Wade Harshman Scrum Master| GDIT Indianapolis, In, United States
The issue is not whether scrum will work. The real issues you identified is the size and distribution of the team. These are challenges for any team, regardless of organizational culture or project framework.
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Peter Ambrosy Weinheim, Germany
Yes, it works. LeSS and Nexus are good frameworks to get it running.

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