Can you gain the benefits of applying agile philosophy and practices on teams whose members are distributed across multiple rooms, multiple cities, multiple countries, and even multiple companies? From David Barnholdt's blog: http://blog.crisp.se/davidbarnholdt/ Deborah Hartmann Preuss points out in InfoQ that if we go all the way back to the beginning, the optimal XP work space was described as "caves and commons," where team members had access to each other when they wanted, and to private space when they wanted. Why, all of a sudden, are we telling people they have to constantly collocate? Could it be that the agile team room concept has taken on a life of its own? Is the agile team room a fad? As someone very wise said to me on Tuesday, "the room is a metaphor," not a specification. We should build our agile work spaces the same way we build our software: around functional stories, not around "the system shall..." statements. Wh...
Non-zealot reflections on real life agile leadership, management and analysis practices.