E L I G A How to Make Location- F Independent Agile Work Authors K. Subramanian Head, Delivery Excellence, Tata Consultancy Services Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali NCE O Head, TCS Agile Initiative Network, Tata Consultancy Services SE While it is very beneficial to have all the team members of small agile teams co-located, insisting on having all inter-related agile teams in the same location is not worth the effort and is unrealistic in today’s global business environment. In fact, in the last article of this issue of Perspectives (“Why Your Agile Team E ES is Better Off Dispersed: The Case for Location-Independent Agile”), TCS makes the case that agile programs whose teams TH are distributed can more quickly develop new processes and systems that are more on target with customer needs. In our own work, we have observed several hundred projects that use location-independent agile teams. Given the challenges involved, it is clear that one way of working does not fit all projects. For example, some projects may be best suited to having agile teams co-located, at least at first, while others may succeed best with contributions from different agile teams in many places. Companies that are new to agile approaches can also benefit from starting with co-located teams as they work to build distributed capabilities. Which model a company