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Yuval Yeret

Using a Task Board with One Remote Team Member | Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeedin... - 0 views

  • Try to get the one person to move to where the rest of the team is.
  • Having one remote is a cost that must be borne by the full team. For the right person, it’s easily worth it. But sometimes, the person who is remote has not special skills, knowledge or experience to justify the added hassle.
  • continue to use the physical task board–it is simply too beneficial to the collocated team members to give it up in favor of a product backlog tool, especially if team members are already used to it and like it.
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  • The remote person in this case could identify during the daily Scrum what he or she will work on and not need further interaction with the task board until selecting the next task. Here, the remote person doesn’t really interact with the task board at all and interacts only with the team. Not ideal as I’d like the person to see the tasks, but this can work in some situations.
  • more common is for the ScrumMaster to take on the responsibility of updating an electronic version that mirrors the physical task board
  • One good way of minimizing the time the ScrumMaster spends doing this is to mark the cards on the physical task board. The mark indicates “I’ve updated this task. Please update it in the online task board.” I like to use Post-It flags for this
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