Agile Methodologies for Distributed Collaborative Development of Enterprise Applications

Managing large distributed software projects for enterprise applications with traditional methodologies designed for collocated teams often leads to high planning and management overheads. The sequential and plan-driven traditional approaches often do not allow for an adequate reaction to changes in requirements. Today, Extreme Programming (XP) is the most popular agile development methodology. This paper analyzes how and to what extent XP can be transferred to distributed development projects for large enterprise applications. The focus is on XP in particular, since it is the most common agile methodology in practice and has the highest congruence to the original Agile Manifesto.