Virtual Scrum
summary
Practical checklist of what actually works: use video or phone bridge plus persistent chat (Slack) and shared artifacts (JIRA, OneNote) so remotes are equal; run sprint planning with a shared screen and pointingpoker.com as a fallback — it “saved our bacon” after Hurricane Sandy and survives small-team voting; schedule long planning windows like 12:00–4:30 Eastern with a lunch break to span US time zones; use a physical token (the Kevin picture token) or whiteboard snapshots so offsite teammates aren’t forgotten.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Background
- 2:00Play along
- 5:29Tool: Phone Bridge
- 6:16Tool: Pointing Poker
- 8:28Consensus
- 9:03Remote Sprint Planning
- 11:05Tool: Online Scrum Tools
- 11:21Tool: Learning aid
- 12:16Remote Standup
- 14:52Whiteboards - remotes as afterthought
- 15:21Tool: Whiteboard
- 18:11Remote Retrospectives
- 19:29Remote Agile games
- 20:46Remote Sprint Review
- 22:00Tool: Shared docs
- 22:15Closing tips
- 23:28Tool: Fist of Five
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