Chapter 13. Offshore

Chapter

• Expectations 446

• Interactions 450

• Requirements 458

• Test 463

• Teams 466

• Agile Culture 468

• Partnership 469

• Choosing an Agile Outsourcer 475

• Appraisals, Certifications, and CMMI 480

• Contracts 494

• Tools 495

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.—Aldous Huxley

Many tips relevant to agile offshore development with Scrum are covered in other chapters—Multisite, and so forth. In offshore, all the usual Scrum events and practices apply.

This chapter focuses on the intersection of agility with typical ‘offshore’ issues:

• different culture and language

• knowledge/requirements transfer

• short-term projects rather than long-term product development

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