Comments on One More Agile Blog: Agile Office Space

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2011-11-20T23:32:54.032-05:00

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2011-01-24T06:58:39.906-05:00

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Project management is the discipline of planning, ...

2010-06-09T03:14:08.971-04:00

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is sometimes conflated with program management, however technically a program is actually a higher level construct: a group of related and somehow interdependent projects.

You're right that our team room is somewhere i...

2010-01-29T03:47:18.290-05:00

You're right that our team room is somewhere in between a war room and an open workspace.

One of the best working environments I've ever worked with actually was a team/war room, that at the same time was a "transit-room": our managers had to pass through the room to get a cup of coffee! See photos under "11." at http://xp123.com/xplor/room-gallery/index.shtml

Ilja, thanks for the great feedback and sharing th...

2010-01-28T15:57:13.586-05:00

Ilja, thanks for the great feedback and sharing the picture.

War room do great for helping create an effective environment for the project team to develop software rapidly and there are situations where it is appropriate. This includes what I stated in my blog as well and smaller companies/start ups and also on teams if the team members are receptive towards it. I also think it is a great for teams to have an Agile War Room available to them (on top of their regular work areas) for bursts of productivity.

One of my concerns is that it becomes the “stick the developers in the basement” syndrome. We want the Scrum team to embrace and understand the rest of the company and vice versa. At places like the Motley Fool, I thought it was great that the Scrum teams and seated openly with other parts of their companies and that the teams identify with the company as a whole. Also is the human aspect of it. If you plan on making a career at a company, you tend to want some human space and personalization to your environment.

It’s kind of hard to tell, but it looks like your pictures straddle a bit of a line between a war room and open space, and ultimately this is one of those things that can be called out during a retrospectives. Some Agile teams may want and strive in a war room and others may start feeling the isolation from a day to day war room environment.

Not sure what exactly your general issue with war ...

2010-01-27T04:50:37.427-05:00

Not sure what exactly your general issue with war rooms is. I certainly wouldn't want to work in the one shown above, but with more space and some plants, a war room can be made quite nice: http://tinyurl.com/yeyqoxv - or perhaps that room doesn't qualify, for some reason?