Classes of Distributed Agile Development Problems

Little is known about problems encountered in distributed Agile development environments. There have been some case studies reporting on them. However, these studies have been mainly limited to the scope and context of only one or a few companies. As a result, we do not possess an overall picture of what types of problems and challenges the companies may encounter in distributed Agile environments. In this paper, we analyze twelve case studies from the existing literature, identify thirteen problems reported in them and their solutions, and we group the problems into six classes: Culture, Time Zone, Communication, Customer Collaboration, Trust, Training and Technical Issues.