side the daily stand-up meetings. In one instance for example,
two Indian developers were working on the same bug.
When using a traditional Scrum board in a collocated team
workspace, such a situation would seldom happen, since a developer
would physically go to the board and move the ‘bug
ticket’ from one column to another, thereby signaling a status
change. However, in the distributed setup there was no way
for a developer to notice such a change if not explicitly communicated.
To account for this lack of awareness between the
developers, the lead developer located in Denmark contacted
the Indian developers on a daily basis using instant messaging.
This process allowed him to get an overview of the status
of work, but this information then only resided with him and