7 Concrete Ways to Improve Collaboration in Remote or Distributed Scrum Teams

Co-location was once a pre-requisite for success with agile approaches like Scrum. This is no longer the case: Remote Working, Distributed Teams and Satellite Workers are the New Normal.

For better or worse, the world of work is globalised: we are no longer obliged to work in the same location as our colleagues. We can be WFH, digital nomads and remote first, if we want to be…

This post is about ways to improve your vernacular on this topic and help your team to become more ‘remote aware.’ This will help you and your team to succeed with Scrum.

Distributed and Remote are the ‘New Normal’

The 13th Version One State of Agile Survey in Spring 2019 revealed some pretty remarkable numbers to illustrate that the majority of respondents worked with remote or distributed teams:

“78% of respondents said their organization practices agile with team members distributed (not co-located). 68% of respondents said their organization practices agile with multiple co-located teams, collaborating across geographic boundaries.” (13th Version One State of Agile Report)

In addition to international organisations, the rise and prevalence of flexible working policies mean it is now…