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Steven "Doc" List, Agile Novice

VP of Software Development learning to be agile
How does an office move affect the team?

We moved our office last week. In spite of everyone's best intentions, it was hard NOT to have the planning and preparation for the move affect the team.

Velocity is down.

People were distracted.

Then we get into the new office, and the space had to be arranged to suit the team, furniture reconfigured, equipment hooked up, and so on.

Some folks fell right back into their work patterns, just in a different location. Others took more time to get everything arranged, help out with moving stuff around, and generally get ready to get back to work.

I'm wondering how much of this is in any way specifically relevant to agileness.

 

Posted: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:33 AM by slist

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bret said:

How does it relate to agile? Since we work in a team room, the arrangement of the team room is the result of a team process, balancing the different perceptions and needs of the people on the team in order to optimize the team performance. A new space requires many of these arrangements to be translated to the location and often reinterpreted or renegotiated. This takes time.

# December 6, 2007 3:04 PM
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