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Jim Weirich posted this to the mailing list. It’s interesting enough to regurgitate here, I think:

I found the following article interesting, and is in harmony with what I’ve been saying recently …

http://www.cutter.com/research/sample.html

In particular, the following paragraph was interesting. After talking about how offshoring has driven the easy “define all the requirements up front” work to offshore, he continues with:

That left a core of more complex projects: the ones that had strategic import, that affected the backbone of the organization, that required far too much user involvement to be successfully offshored. These too were the projects that were important enough so that cost savings were not at the top of their sponsors’ lists. And these are the very projects in which XP and other agile methods work best.