What does a collaborative team work space look like?
The following passage from a generally good article by Jon Evans struck a chord with me: Open-plan offices, in particular, seem an impressively terrible idea. "Open plan layouts create massive...
View ArticleHow does collaboration begin?
The question was posed in a discussion on LinkedIn. It received the following response: Is the question "how does collaboration begin" or "how do specialists become generalists"? I assume the latter....
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Team practices, code reviews, and lead time
Recently, I watched a webinar that demonstrates a work flow for asynchronous code reviews using a tool from JetBrains called Upsource. The webinar started me thinking about the constraints that might...
View ArticleIs collaboration really so difficult?
In episode 79 of Dave Saboe’s excellent podcast series, “Mastering Business Analysis,” Dave interviews Paula Bell about effective collaboration. Here’s the link:...
View ArticleI don’t know
Why are your socks on the floor again? I don’t know. Don’t say “I don’t know!” How many times have I told you to turn off the light when you leave a room? I don’t know. Don’t say “I don’t know!” How...
View ArticleIntroversion and Agile
The relative effectiveness of collaborative work over individual work for many (not all) activities has become well-enough established by now that hardly anyone questions it. No one establishes an...
View ArticleWhat’s the cost of interrupting developers?
There’s been some online chatter recently about an old topic – the need for uninterrupted focused work time when doing software development. Some of the comments have surprised me, in part because I...
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Collaboration
Contemporary software development methods emphasize collaborative work over solo work. I remember this idea gaining momentum from as far back as the 1990s, when Extreme Programming was becoming known,...
View ArticleCode Freeze 2021: Mob Programming Workshop
The Code Freeze 2021 virtual conference culminated in a two-hour mob programming (a.k.a. ensemble work or samman) workshop. Seventy-four participants worked in 17 groups, each facilitated by an...
View ArticleWhither Tuckman?
There’s a common model people seem to believe in implicitly, known as the Tuckman model, named for psychologist Bruce Tuckman, who published the idea in 1965. The idea is that all teams go through...
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