A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COLLOCATED AND DISTRIBUTED AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.

Agile methodologies are employed by organizations in order to ensure quick delivery of the final software product and to ensure smooth communication and coordination between the various project development teams and all the stakeholders involved. One of the major principles of the agile methodology is that all the teams and stakeholders involved should work at the same geographical location in order to have coordination amongst the various teams and also to ensure quick delivery of the software product. With the advent of globalization many of the firms have started expanding their operations throughout the world in order to increase their market both qualitatively and quantitatively. Hence software development has also become distributed in order to attain high levels of quality and productivity and decrease the costs at the same time. This paper compares both the methodologies and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of each method.