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... 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...
madbad
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
madbad
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... 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...
Bill Caputo
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
Clive Evans
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Nov 9, 2009
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152275
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 ...
Ron Jeffries
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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...
Craig Davidson
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... 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...
George Dinwiddie
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Nov 9, 2009
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152278
Hello, Clive. On Monday, November 9, 2009, at 5:11:33 AM, you ... It won't help unless someone proves 10X, but ... ...
Ron Jeffries
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Nov 9, 2009
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152279
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...
Ron Jeffries
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... 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...
Chris Hulan
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Nov 9, 2009
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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...
Ron Jeffries
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
Clive Evans
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Nov 9, 2009
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152283
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...
kentb
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Nov 9, 2009
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... The projector doesn't fix the communication problem, Instead of everyone sitting around staring at a laptop screen while one person works, everyone is...
Curtis Cooley
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
madbad
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
Curtis Cooley
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Nov 9, 2009
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... 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...
Adam Sroka
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Nov 9, 2009
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152288
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...
Jason Nocks
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Nov 9, 2009
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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 ...
Renan Martins
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... Also see http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/biblio/StudiesOfColocation which contains a link to the full article. - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie *...
George Dinwiddie
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... 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...
Tim Ottinger
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... 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...
William Pietri
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152293
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 ...
Ron Jeffries
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152294
... 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...
William Pietri
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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 ...
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... 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...
William Pietri
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... Yes. In various chunks, I've lived overseas 3 years. William [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
William Pietri
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152298
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...
Tim Ottinger
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152299
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...
scott preece
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152300
... 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,...
Curtis Cooley
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