Trust among team members is imperative for blending agility with distributed software
development. Little is known about how team members who are dispersed across different …

Background: Trust fuels team performance and contributes to build an effective and
cohesive team. The self-organizing and collaborative nature of Agile teams increases the …

Agile teams advocates face-to-face conversation, frequent communication and close
collaboration between team members in order to work together as one team. In distributed …

Software development teams need highly valuable knowledge to carry out knowledge-
intensive development activities. Agile teams are cross-functional teams that promote …

Team co-location is a hallmark of Agile software development that advocates face-to-face
interaction and close collaboration among team members. Distributed teams, however, use …

Agile methods rely on face-to-face communication but are being used in distributed projects.
We have conducted grounded theory research with Agile practitioners to collate the …

Agile methods prefer team members to be collocated to promote effective communication
between team members. Effective communication is crucial for distributed Agile software …

Background: Organizations are adopting agile practices in distributed software development
in order to develop quality software in less time. Using agile software development in …

Team dynamics are patterns of interaction among team members that determine the
performance of the team. Success of Agile software development depends on team …

Communication and collaboration are central skills for agile development. Trust, openness,
transparency and equality are core agile values and there is a shortage of software …