CAN DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BE AGILE?

lobal sourcing and distributed software development have become a common business reality. Moreover, the current dynamic business environment requires organizations to develop and evolve software systems at Internet speed. As a consequence of these major trends, software development organizations have been striving to blend agile software development methods like Extreme Programming and distributed development to reap the benefits of both. However, agile and distributed development approaches differ significantly in their key tenets. For example, while agile methods mainly rely on informal processes to facili-tate coordination, distributed software development typically relies on formal mechanisms