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Fundamentals of Agile Distributed Software Development

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This chapter provides an introduction to the area of agile distributed software development. It proceeds as follows. We start by introducing and motivating (globally) distributed software development, and follow on with agile software development. With this foundation we discuss the concept of agile distributed development, its motivation and some of the pertinent issues involved.

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  1. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden

    Darja Šmite

  2. SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, Norway

    Nils Brede Moe

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Pär J. Ågerfalk

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  1. School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, 372 25, Sweden

    Darja Šmite

  2. Dept. Information & Communication, Technology (ICT), SINTEF, Trondheim, 7465, Norway

    Nils Brede Moe

  3. Dept. Information Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 20, Sweden

    Pär J. Ågerfalk

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Šmite, D., Moe, N.B., Ågerfalk, P.J. (2010). Fundamentals of Agile Distributed Software Development. In: Šmite, D., Moe, N., Ågerfalk, P. (eds) Agility Across Time and Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12442-6_1

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