The scrum manifesto focuses on the importance of co-location, where members sit together and work closely with each other. However, in actual practice, a good number of service providers work with scrum teams where team members are located across different states of even countries. So, quite a contradiction , huh?
How many of us has watched this movie "Up in the Air" ? I was intrigued by the use of a particular term there, which I feel very relevant to this situation we are talking about. It is "GLOCAL", which breaks downs to, "GLOBAL+LOCAL".