recommend co-located teams, over 75% of Agile teams are actually distributed*. Get automated reporting and prediction, don't waste time building a burndown chart or tracking velocity by hand. In short, all the benefits of physical, and more. *Ambysoft State of the IT Union, Sept 2012 "OBMPH5PPM74%JHJUBM5PPM 201210݄20༵
introduced as KSSE* / Agile Kanban. EU and US have already 'Crossed the Chasm'. Japan is a pioneer in lean manufacturing, why not in Agile software development? Culture. *www.infoq.com/jp/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban +BQBO740WFSTFB 201210݄20༵
BUT, the opportunities for Waterfall are decreasing. Agile has proven to be more successful. So, who wouldn't want to be Agile? See Gartner report "The End of Waterfall as We Know it" - August 2012: "Transition from traditional waterfall methods to agile" "HJMF748' /JDL 201210݄20༵