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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 indepth 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.

NTEREST IN GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVEL-opment (GSD) is rapidly growing as the software industry experiences increasing globalization of business (Herbsleb & Moitra, 2001). In GSD, stakeholders from different national and organizational cultures and time zones are involved in developing software (Damian, 2002), and tasks at various stages of the software lifecycle may be separated and implemented at different geographic locations coordinated through the use of information and communication technologies (Sahay, 2003). As …