Decide How to Distribute Multiple Teams

When a project involves enough people to create more than one Scrum team, an important decision is how to organize those teams across geographic boundaries. A large project can be organized into multiple collaborating collocated teams or multiple deliberately distributed teams. These alternatives are shown in Figure 18.1, which shows a two-location situation.

Figure 18.1 Two different approaches to distributing teams between the United States and France.

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Collaborating collocated teams occur when a project has enough people in two or more cities to establish a team in each city. Each of the collocated teams ...

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