http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/28/war-rooms-increase-productivity/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/28/war-rooms-increase-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Anonymous Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:35:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/28/war-rooms-increase-productivity/#comment-166 I agree, in my environment we had quiet areas around the sides, tables in the middle and loads of break-out areas, but we were mainly doing design and systems integration, not hard core coding. I agree, in my environment we had quiet areas around the sides, tables in the middle and loads of break-out areas, but we were mainly doing design and systems integration, not hard core coding.

]]> http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/28/war-rooms-increase-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Anonymous Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:36:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/28/war-rooms-increase-productivity/#comment-165 That is interesting. I have experienced this same open culture. We ended up getting the actual work done by going home at night and doing the real coding: only junior developers benefitted because they had complete and unfettered access for their non-stop questions. Senior team members immediately began leaving or finding excuses to be absent. Burnout was severe. That is interesting. I have experienced this same open culture. We ended up getting the actual work done by going home at night and doing the real coding: only junior developers benefitted because they had complete and unfettered access for their non-stop questions. Senior team members immediately began leaving or finding excuses to be absent. Burnout was severe.

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