Scott Schnier
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16 yearsOver the past 30 years Scott Schnier has served in a wide variety of roles in the information technology field. He has held titles such as software engineer, project leader, and director of development, mentor, and architect, director of quality assurance, project manager, program manager and agile coach. He has worked at variety of small startups and large established firms including Digital Equipment, Cincom Systems, Together Soft and, MedPlus a Quest Diagnostics company. Scott takes special pleasure and has a passion for helping people work better together. He has a BA, MBA, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Greenbelt certifications. Scott can be reached on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottschnier or visit the blog http://agileadventure.blogspot.com/
Over the past 30 years Scott Schnier has served in a wide variety of roles in the information technology field. He has held titles such as software engineer, project leader, and director of development, mentor, and architect, director of quality assurance, project manager, program manager and agile coach. He has worked at variety of small startups and large established firms including Digital Equipment, Cincom Systems, Together Soft and, MedPlus a Quest Diagnostics company. Scott takes special pleasure and has a passion for helping people work better together. He has a BA, MBA, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Greenbelt certifications. Scott can be reached on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottschnier or visit the blog http://agileadventure.blogspot.com/
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| Falling Back to a Virtual Daily Scrum One of the key processes in an Agile Scrum development process is the daily stand up or Scrum meeting. Yet there are many teams who seek to be Agile but are part of distributed or virtual teams. This article describes a mitigation for the lack of collocation either due to permanent distribution as in geographically distributed teams or “plan B” meetings on “snow days”. This virtual daily scrum process cannot replace the benefits for a real scrum meeting with rich non verbal communication but it can be a very effective process in a distributed or “Scrum But” environment.
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