Software development using agile and scrum in distributed teams

Agile software development practices, like Scrum, that allow teams to focus on delivering product and improved communication has made it one of the easiest and best software development techniques. On the other hand, such agile methods have been designed for collocated software development and are thus not directly applicable to distributed agile development. In this paper, we present findings from case studies and real life distributed Agile and Scrum projects conducted since 2011, as well as the challenges and benefits the case projects reported and unique lessons learned from them.