Critical Success Factors in Distributed Agile, presented at CONSEG 2009

Abstract: Agile Software Development and the breed of Agile Methodologies (XP, SCRUM, DSDM, etc.) have gained popularity since 2001. Primarily founded as methodologies for software projects executed at a single location, Agile Methodologies have started showing promising results in multi-site projects too with many adopters and practitioners across the globe. For more than two decades, offshore delivery models have been successful in case of application maintenance and enhancement projects. In case of development projects iterative lifecycle approaches have gained familiarity and acceptability compared to the classical waterfall approach in delivering results and ensuring customer satisfaction. Agile Software Development focuses on early delivery of working software to measure the progress of projects and hence to mitigate risks.