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Agile Software DevelopmentYou can see from the picture that while the caves and commons room is very efficient for transmitting information, it is also very efficient for transmitting coughs and colds. People who work in this sort of room encourage their colleagues to stay home if they don't feel well, and to return after they have recovered. You can also see that it is drafty (in an information sense): the people sitting in this configuration should really need to overhear each other. Finally, you can see that it is very effective as long as the morale of the group is good. Once the social chit-chat degenerates into negative chatter, the highly osmotic communication again magnifies its effect. Skunkworks It is useful to compare the above discussions against a group performing classical "engineering", one of the most effective aero-engineering groups, Lockheed's "skunk works" team. This team achieved fame for their rapid development of a series of radical new airplane designs in the second half of the 20th century, under the guidance of Jim Kelly and his successor, Ben Rich ...» |
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