Foreword by Roman Pichler

My early experiences of distributed software development include attending conference calls without having access to the documents being discussed; hoping for an upgrade to get some sleep on a long-haul flight; and being surprised when I finally met the face to a voice I only knew from telephone conversations. Distributed software development is challenging, as Elizabeth Woodward, Matthew Ganis, and Steffan Surdek clearly point out in their book, A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum. Things don’t get easier when Scrum is applied. I remember one Scrum project I worked on where the build times grew longer and longer, as the number of teams and locations increased. On another project, we had to figure out how to run ...

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