Drawing upon extant literature, we first construct a framework consisting of three major dimensions (agility, virtualness, and structure) to address the question of how productive agile teams can be configured in globally distributed environments. We then propose a configurational pattern for global agile teams by taking each of the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto and describe its inte...

Social responsibility is at the heart of the Engineer's Creed embodied in the pledge that we will dedicate [our] professional knowledge and skill to the advancement and betterment of human welfare... [placing] public welfare above all other considerations. However, half century after the original creed was written, we find ourselves in a world with great technological advances and great global-...