Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:11:42 -0600 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: Agile Project Management Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <8b9e9575-e454-4d1b-80aa-f89a4a39b511@t24g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4f36f42a$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <92d0e832-6c70-4dc6-9c9f-71f588920d36@vv9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-15-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:11:42 -0600 Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-3hTF3uOrQzdYEwmTEbzFXljJOeD8AC21iFqbAI9Jo1GA5nLo2lsIVrxj2eAryx3JF7BRreuqLIvEeCz!Cew8xMMXEh7tufGC0ccIDZTgFsBpD8CgdxcHu4+7mISo3GuiS8KLJoaCyp6Ozu4LKMdy0W5Wsw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2081 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12015 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Sitting together can be useful, especially when a task requires several > different types of knowledge, so that a team has to work together almost > continuously, rather than dividing up the work and each doing their own > piece. I think the real benefit of co-location is not that the members are more accessible to the rest of the team, but that they're less accessible to other people. In my experience, the two factors that are most likely to scupper a development project is a) insufficient and shoddy ground work and b) developers not being able to focus on the project because of other demands (formal or informal) on their time. -- Leif Roar Moldskred