This book records the author’s years of feelings and experiences in software industry. In his own practices, the author has found that the distributed work pattern has become increasingly popular in more and more work environments, either between vendors and customers or between different teams inside a company. This means that all practitioners in software industry need to adapt to this new way of communication and collaboration, and get skilled enough to meet the greater challenges in integrating the distributed work pattern with the agile software delivery. By centering on the difficulties in communication and collaboration between distributed teams, this book digs into the reasons why so many remote delivery projects end up anticlimactic, and provides solutions for readers’ reference. It also cites successful cases in promoting agile development in distributed teams, which has been a vexing problem of many software development companies. In addition, readers can find suggestions and measures for building self-managing teams in this book.  So it is a practical guide for software delivery teams with their members distributed in different places, and companies engaged in software customization. Developers, QAs, product managers and project leaders can also get inspired from this book.