Can distributed software development be agile?

By Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Lan Cao, K. Mohan, Peng Xu. CACM, 2006

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Lean principles, learning, and knowledge work: Evidence from a software services provider (2011, background): “Additionally, the globally distributed nature of Wipro‘s services runs counter to calls for developers to collocate (Highsmith and Cockburn, 2001; Ramesh et al., 2006).”
Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination (2007, background): “fairly sparse, Ramesh and colleagues [59] report successful experiences when agile is adjusted appropriately for a GSD context, e.”
Empirical evidence in global software engineering: a systematic review (2010, background): “Although distributed software development typically relies on formal mechanisms, there is a growing trend towards balancing agile and distributed approaches to meet the challenges of communication, control and trust (Ramesh et al. 2006; Holmström et al. 2006).”