Will send you the pgm to do the Usual Suspects.

There are a few distributed teams. One consists of all remote people. One guy (I think he might be the SM) lives in Mexico and comes once a month. They’ve been doing this a long time – one SM has worked remotely for 13 years, long before they started doing Scrum!

Each team chooses its own SM, so the SM is someone already on the team, a developer or tester. I’m not wild about that, I think a SM can be more effective if she doesn’t have a stake in the outcome of any conflicts or religious discussions. But I guess it has its efficiencies. I’m not a very good SM, I must say!

Where can I find an app that rotates heads? Sounds like a way to make stand ups more fun.

A lot teams, wow. Can’t imagine what that is like. How long has the company been using distributed teams? Are they all distributed? Need any distributed SMs?

Shaving yaks, I confess, it’s a term I keep seeing on twitter that I take to mean, doing drudge work that just has to get done so you can do the interesting stuff. Such as – setting up your tools, test environments, networks and the like.