Locating all agile team members in the same room has become a well-intended but quaint myth. Instead, companies must create location-independent agile teams: groups working on the same effort not located in the same place. In this way, enterprises can tap the talent needed to innovate and remain competitive wherever it resides in the world, generating more and better ideas for improving digital processes or products. The biggest reason why most companies are ignoring the sixth principle of the Agile Manifesto is that it no longer makes business sense. Leaders who understand the severe limitations of forcing people with the skills and knowledge to be in the same room day in and day out are making location- independent agile teams work, and work well.
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