Martin Fowler has a nice piece on what a good team room should look like.
Here is what ours looks like:
Many times when we have visitors I get asked if sitting together so closely is not problematic. Especially if the person asking comes from a background of two people private offices.
My answer is always the same. I used to have a nice Jugendstil turn of the century private office with wooden floor and plastered ceiling – I don’t want to trade back: >> more…
The last couple of days we had our “Rookie days”. Once a quarter all new hires from all offices come together in Munich for a series of introductory presentations about conject, the company, the market and our products.
This afternoon I gave my presentation about the strategic direction of our products. On my way home I realized, we had had 9 people there and
one Russian
two Polish
one German from Dubai (=Expat)
one Australian
one Turkish
one Moldavian
two Germans
wow.
Last week we moved all our tables into one corner of our office, creating a large open space on the other end of the office. Why did we do that? Didn’t we move into our large big new office precisely because we wanted to have more room. Yes, but it turns out that even two more meters between formerly adjacent tables reduce the amount and intensity of communication between those tables. >> more…
