Agile working with offsite teams

["Sarah Blake" <Sarah -dot- Blake -at- microfocus -dot- com>]

Hi all,

 

I've recently begun a new job, at which I've been given the
responsibility of handling the documentation for a set of products that
are developed by a team overseas.

 

Now, this isn't a situation that's entirely new to me - in the past I've
worked on a number of projects that have required international
communication - but this has a far larger scope than what I've done
before, and will require a more intensive level of communication (the
overseas team are also hoping to migrate to SCRUM over the coming
months).

 

So given that I'm essentially going to have to put a communication
strategy in place from scratch, and given that the dev team have no
experience in working with an overseas writer, and given that my
knowledge of SCRUM is so far entirely theoretical, I'm hoping to be able
to use the experience of this list as a guide; can anyone offer any
suggestions, warnings, or similar experiences from which I might learn?

Sarah Blake
Senior Technical Author
Micro Focus

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