Question

You are leading a globally distributed agile team spread across four time zones. Two developers—one in India and one in the United States—have raised frustration that daily standups always occur at inconvenient hours for one of them, and collaboration has begun to suffer. The team's velocity is starting to decline. As the project manager practicing servant leadership, what is the BEST action to take?

Accepted Answer

Facilitate a session where the team collaboratively revises their ground rules, rotating meeting times and adopting asynchronous updates where feasible.

Answer

Set a fixed standup time that works best for the majority of the team and require everyone to adjust their schedules accordingly.

Answer

Escalate the scheduling conflict to the functional managers of both developers and ask them to resolve the availability issue.

Answer

Eliminate the daily standup entirely and rely solely on the project management tool for status updates to avoid time zone conflicts.