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Contemporary Practices in Systems Development

Agile Practices Reduce Distance in Global Software Development

Helena Holmström A research fellow with the University of Limerick, Ireland, and an assistant professor at the software engineering and management program at the IT University in Gothenburg, Sweden. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Brian Fitzgerald Holds the Frederick A. Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick, where he also is a university research fellow and Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator.
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Pär J. Ågerfalk A research fellow with the University of Limerick, and an assistant professor at Örebro University, Sweden.
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Eoin Ó. Conchúir Research student at the University of Limerick.
Pages 7-18 | Published online: 21 Dec 2006
 
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Abstract

This article explores how agile practices can reduce three kinds of “distance” – temporal, geographical, and sociocultural – in global software development (GSD). On the basis of two in-depth case studies, specific Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP) practices are found to be useful for reducing communication, coordination, and control problems that have been associated with GSD.

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