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By taking a straightforward, sensible approach to implementing Scrum along with applying a well-known team building model, Kelley Blue Book successfully created offshoring teams in China and India. We will illustrate how and why we applied The Five Dysfunctions of a Team model by Patrick Lencioni to provide a foundation for growing and sustaining offshore teams several time zones away. We’ll cover examples of how employing this model has improved our offshore engagements and overcome a number of challenges to improve the delivery of the Scrum teams.

Additional information on this experience report:

Areas where applying the Five Dysfunctions model were most effective:
 Making Review and Retrospective meetings more effective
 Maximizing learnings during cross-team site visits
 Determining the “best types of projects” to offshore in the early stages of offshore development
 Overcoming productivity plateaus after several successful sprints

This presentation also describes the important roll Executive management plays in driving the Scrum adoption for KBB and setting up these offshore offices. And we’ll review the communication channels we have found most useful and the how these they have changed over time.

Audience: This presentation will be most useful for those who are starting an offshore development office in China and/or India as an R&D facility, not just a “body shop” for lower cost software development. This presentation can also be an introduction to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team model for any team.