Open Problem Statement from 30th July 2016 - Practitioner's Corner - Chennai.

Problem Statement

This problem was brought to the table by a practitioner 'Scrum Master' in the 'Practitioner's corner'. It could not be discussed due to the lack of time. Problem statement below,

The Scrum Master's team is functionally and geographically distributed scrum team. Scrum Master and QA team is co-located in Chennai. Development team 1 sits at Singapore and Development team 2 sits in another geography other than the two mentioned above. 

Scrum Team does not connect regularly with Product Owner unless when it is the 'Sprint Review'. Zeroth sprint always runs ahead of the Scrum Team's sprint. In the Zeroth sprint, group of architects discuss with Product Owner and come up with 'Architectural stories' and 'Feature stories' which 'Scrum team' has to work on.Team follows a 2 month sprint window whose breakup is below,

• Build and QA happen in parallel in the the First month + Integration testing with Upstream and Downstream teams.
• QA team provides UAT support to business in the second month.
• Scrum Team does not have resources for working on Non functional requirements (ex. performance testing).
• Release happens at the end of every 3 months

Issue faced by the Scrum Team:

• We hear from the 'Scrum Master' of the impacted team (details below) that even though there is the above process followed, 

• The application in production has performance issues (especially - Non functional ones)

Due to lack of time, we were not able to take up this problem statement and figure out the root cause. 

This is an open problem statement which can be picked up for discussion in upcoming Practitioner's corner.

Thanks,

Natarajan