SCRUM in Onshore Offshore Delivery model or Global delivery Model

This type of scrum is called as Distributed Scrum (Agile). There are couple of ways using which you can conduct your Daily Standup meetings in an Onshore Offshore or Global delivery model, but you have to see which one fits better to you.

One way is to conduct a Daily Standup Scrum at an overlapping time for all your teams using the Video conferencing or voice Call.

Personally, it makes more sense to have video conferencing than to have calls as it improves the communication within the team, but I’ve have seen teams those have been successful even using only voice calls.

The format for the Daily Scrum remains the same, everyone in the Scrum team answers the same 3 questions- What I did yesterday, What I’ll do today and Any obstacles?

You can have Scrum Master from any location.

The Second way to do this is by having each team at different locations its own daily stand up meeting. Ideally, in this case each team will have its own daily Scrum stand up meeting in the morning as per its local time and there will be Scrum Master for each of the different locations locally. 

In this case, Scrum masters in each location will keep a track of everything for their respective Daily Stand up meetings and they will again join another Stand up meeting, which will involve Scrum masters from each of the different geographical locations. Now, among the Scrum Masters the team will have a one Scrum Master who will run this (main-) Daily Stand up meeting and instead of answering the 3 questions now each Scrum Master will just answer 1 question i.e. obstacles reported by his scrum team in his local daily standup meeting.

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