Spent the evening at the local PMI meeting. Wonderful speaker from Rally spoke about Agile. Many topics of interest. In particular he indicated that sprint length in order of popularity was 2 weeks, followed by 4 weeks then 3 then 1. No one does 5. My gut is that for distributed teams the sprint length tends to be longer. Distributed teams have more communication overhead as adapt and higher process cost. Hence I believe they need a longer work period to amortize the process cost over the work effort. I wonder how I can validate this gut feeling.

I was also pleased to hear another assertion that the number of people who are in the Agile camp and believe Agile is impossible in a distributed environment. Many of us in the audience supported the position that distributed organizations are a fact of life that we just can't change. And, that is the central question of this Blog. How can we best make Agile work or adapt pure agile values to a distributed environment rather than just saying it doesn't work.