Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams: Staying Agile in a Global World by Jutta Eckstein   You can order the book Amazon.com

All software projects face the challenges of diverse distances -- temporal, geographical, cultural, lingual, political, historical, and more. Many forms of distance even affect developers in the same room. The goal of this book is to reconcile two mainstays of modern agility: the close collaboration agility relies on, and project teams distributed across different cities, countries, and continents.

In Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Jutta Eckstein asserts that, in fact, agile methods and the constant communication they require are uniquely capable of solving the challenges of distributed projects. Agility is responsiveness to change -- in other words, agile practitioners maintain flexibility to accommodate changing circumstances and results. Iterative development serves the learning curve that global project teams must scale.

Jutta Eckstein
Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams: Staying Agile in a Global World
Dorset House, New York, 2010 (forthcoming)
200 pages (est.)
ISBN 978-0-932633-71-2

• Excerpts of the book (as pdf):
  • Flyer about the book
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction

• More about the German Version
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• Illustrations and cover design by Katja Gloggengiesser