Traditional Scrum methods don’t help if you are dealing with distributed agile teams: in fact, the traditional answer to how you can manage distributed agile is “Pick distributed or agile; you can’t have both.”

Recently, Arun Kumar (founder and CEO of Kerika) gave a presentation to the Seattle Software Process Improvement Network (SeaSPIN), reviewing three generic strategies for managing distributed agile teams:

• Divide by location
• Divide by function
• Divide by component

The talk was very well received, so here it is as a Slideshare presentation: