About Scrumlance

Scrumlancing combines reliability of conventional product development and the flexibility of freelancing / gigworking. Scrumlance is a new way of developing products and services by highly committed and capable professionals (Scrumlancers) working from distributed Scrum rooms, equipped with state of the art facilities and fully adhering to Agile principles, Values & Scrum framework. Scrumlancers are teams comprising of individually competent professionals in their chosen field with indepth understanding of Scrum framework and are excited to work on challenging projects adhering to Scrum. Scrumlancers include Product owners, Scrum masters, Developers, Testers , Architects , DevOps specialists, Subject matter experts, UI/UX professionals, Marketing professionals, Consultants, Small and medium sized technology companies, Investors etc.

How does it work?

  1. Product ideation

  2. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) definition

  3. High level estimate

  4. Signs an agile contract with the best scrum room

  5. Team formation

  6. Perform release planning

  7. Perform sprint planning

  8. Perform sprint

  9. Perform daily scrum

  10. Perform sprint review

  11. Perform sprint retrospective

  12. Implement corrective & preventive actions

  13. Perform release

Steps 7 to 12 are repeated till the product scope is fully released.

Comparison of different development models

Traditional development

  1. Fixed price contracts

  2. Waterfall / Agile

  3. Transparency - Medium / High

  4. Possibility of technical debt - Medium / low

  5. Technology risk management - Medium / High

  6. Ease of change management - Medium / Low

  7. Impact of attrition - High / Medium

  8. Predictability - Medium / High

  9. Meritocracy - Medium / Low

  10. Ease of scaling up - Medium

Freelancing / Gig working

  1. T&M / fixed price contracts

  2. Ad-hoc

  3. Transparency - Low

  4. Possibility of technical debt - High

  5. Technology risk management - Low

  6. Ease of change management - Low

  7. Impact of attrition - High

  8. Predictability - Low

  9. Meritocracy - High

  10. Ease of scaling up - Low

Scrumlancing

  1. Agile contracts

  2. Agile using Scrum

  3. Transparency - Very high

  4. Possibility of technical debt - Low

  5. Technology risk management - High

  6. Ease of change management - High

  7. Impact of attrition - Low

  8. Predictability - High

  9. Meritocracy - High

  10. Ease of scaling up - High