Scrum is a project management method based on Lean to quickly and effectively develop software. Scrum is a step-by-step approach centered around return on investment, team responsibility and involvement of the customer. Scrum is often used in IT, but it is also an excellent method to use outside IT. Its popularity has been growing rapidly over the past years and continues to do so.
This extraordinary management book is a fictive novel that can be read in two to three hours. De Kracht van Scrum tells the story of Mart Verhulst, CTO of a large software company who is struggling with a delayed software project of one of its American customers. With the help of Pekka, a Finish Scrum-coach, he decides to go a different direction with this project and manages to solve a number of often-seen problems in the organization.
In the past, offshoring often seemed more difficult than it was rewarding. Challenges in culture, time zone differences, physical distance, team communication and work distribution make traditional offshoring difficult.
Xebia produced a booklet that proposes a new yet proven approach to offshoring. It focuses on team dynamics and interpersonal communication using agile processes to close the geographical, cultural and linguistic distances. Centered around four Core Essentials, the booklet offers tangible best practices, based on real world projects, to improve the output of your strategic offshoring engagements. It will show you how to deliver rapidly and with the same quality as local hyper-productive agile teams and it will demonstrate the benefits of lower cost, flexible scaling and a greater talent pool.