Reserarch on distributed Scrum teams

Sometimes in the corporate development world, we are so focused on the tasks at hand and the forthcoming deadlines, that there isn't enough time for research. Luckily, more and more research material is available online, and Microsoft does provide a nice, free search engine for many academic sources of news and research. For one, there's Microsoft Academic Search, which I suggest you to take a look at, if you are not already familiar with the tool.

Although much of the research isn't specifically for .NET developers, sometimes there are many gold nuggets to find. For instance, lately I found myself reading a study about distributed Scrum teams and their performance. The paper is titled "Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams", written by Jeff Sutherland et. al and available here.

The paper is from 2007, and thus newish and relevant information for any team using Scrum and/or outsourced development. Check it out! Direct PDF link is here.