When team members are many hours apart, the Scrum events have to fit into a thin window or be split. Follow-the-sun work, where one site hands off to the next, promises round-the-clock progress but is rarely successful in practice. This post looks at how much overlap a team needs, how to run events across zones, how to make handoffs work and how to share the burden of awkward hours fairly.
A distributed team has members in different places, and often different time zones. Scrum still works, but the events, the board and the trust need more deliberate care. The Guide prefers events held at the same time and place, and research on distributed teams finds mixed effects. This post covers overlap hours, written decisions, one shared board, trust and the habits that hold a team together across distance.
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