Agile development, agile techniques, experience

There exist a lot of papers about agile development, its practices and comparison with waterfall method in proceedings, books and Internet. Lots of them are only repeating the principles, techniques or some specifics. This paper rather focuses on and summarizes experience with small as well as large global sourced projects trying to run agile. We summarize main reasons led us to develop agile and also typical impediments and pitfalls during introducing agile way of working. Finally, we outline some techniques that work really well in our environment.