BEST PRACTICES FOR CONFIGURING GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED AGILE TEAMS

Drawing upon the extant literature this paper proposes a conceptual framework based upon the dimensions of agility, team structure, and virtualness to explore the question of how agile software development teams can be successfully configured in globally distributed environments. Based upon interviews conducted among five globally distributed agile teams a set of best practices is presented based upon these three dimensions.

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