This talk presents a few practices used for building a working Scrum team with subcontractors. The practices are based on experiences gained in working with subcontractors. The emphasis of the talk is put on personal contact, equality, and fun as elements engaging all team members into a Scrum project. The practices are presented at general level with a few specific examples. The content of the talk is based on a book chapter ‘Considering Subcontractors in Distributed Scrum Teams’ that will be presented at workshop: http://xp2010.agilealliance.org/node/5467

Learn from the experience of a team that has been working geographically distributed for over a year. Learn the importance of solving communication challenges using good practices and an including work atmosphere. Discover freely available web tools that will help you solve most of the daily scrum tasks.