... Not sure I understand. It's not any "furniture police" that keep us from having a team room, it's the well-meaning? architects who built the building 20...
... I think the rationale is more: if sensitive information is leaked, they want to know which small set of employees had access to it, so appropriate...
... The vast majority of card-based solutions I've seen could be mounted on a cork board that could itself be secured (e.g. in an office). Alternately, you...
... When I was being forced into accepting a distributed team, I argued 1 1/2 times, but it was a gut feel. Is there somewhere I can find these figures so I...
Hello, madbad. On Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 10:49:46 PM, you ... The walls are all structural and built of concrete? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
Hi Sean, I think going for great people over co-location is a good move. A long time ago, a group of smart people once agreed that they valued "people over...
... Perhaps it's the people who have maintained the building as separate offices and no shared working space over 20 years. Buildings can change. It always...
Hello, Craig. On Monday, November 9, 2009, at 5:37:23 AM, you ... What we said was "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Individuals...
... I stumbled onto this link: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx on the Python Google group The article summarizes several...
Hello, Chris. On Monday, November 9, 2009, at 10:12:03 AM, you ... The impact of 2X that is widely reported occurs when the team works in the same ROOM, not...
... Well, it helps me, since it's a purely financial argument that I'm having. If I can prove that it will cost more money to have an off shore team, then I...
Another positive aspect of cards pointed out to me by my partner, a master multi-tasking mom, is that as the release cycle shortens, the slices of time you...
... The projector doesn't fix the communication problem, Instead of everyone sitting around staring at a laptop screen while one person works, everyone is...
... I don't have the clout with management to get them to spend $200K on remodeling (or even $200 for flat-panel monitors or desks without drawers that two...
... And to clarify, this link from Ron's list, http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2000/Dec00/r120600a found War Room to be 2X more productive than...
... Right. The point is communication. It is possible to not communicate in the same room. It is relatively difficult to do so when we are all staring at each...
Hey all, Anyone from this group attending the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando this week? I've been a little bit out of touch from the Agile...
Hello ROGER I'm reading the art of agile development too. Maybe reading the chapter 9, Developing (pg. 276), would be helpful for you.The subtopic "customer ...
... Also see http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/biblio/StudiesOfColocation which contains a link to the full article. - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie *...
... My only worry is when the deployment includes a schema migration. I'm not sure how to do continuous deployment in the old RDBMS case. Maybe that is the...
... I think this stat, which I'm pretty sure comes from studies of solo or relatively isolated developers, is kinda misleading these days. A lot of relatively...
Hello, Tim. On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 9:25:35 AM, you ... Have you seen Ambler/Sadalage, "Refactoring Databases"? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
... I could imagine one small exception to this. I have seen a couple small teams who have been collocated for extended periods (6 mos - 5 years) work...
Hello, William. On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 9:53:22 AM, you ... Have you ever spent an extended period away from your loved ones? Ron Jeffries ...
... My standard line on this is that an off-shore team is a perfectly good idea if you also send key businesspeople to that location semi-permanently. The...
I applaud all attempts to take good software development in any and all new directions, provided that the experimenter is not merely trying to adapt the name...
There are multiple impediments to communication. Sitting in the same room staring at the card in front of you is no more communicative than staring at the...
... As a soccer coach I was taught that players have basically three modes of learning, and each player is better at one than the other. The modes are visual,...
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