One of the enduring myths about agile software development is that it's only applicable for small, colocated teams. Dr. Dobb's 2008 Agile Adoption Survey (www.ddj.com/architect/207600615) disproved this myth, with respondents indicating that agile strategies are being applied successfully on development teams of more than 200 people that a large percentage of agile teams are distributed. In "Agile and Large Teams" (www.ddj.com/architect/208700162), I discussed strategies for organizing large agile teams, and this month I'm going to describe the experiences of a product development team within IBM that is both distributed and agile.
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