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Common Areas at the Heart George Dinwiddie Software Development Consultant and Coach iDIA Computing, LLC http://idiacomputing.com/ http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/ http://idiacomputing.com/ George Dinwiddie, iDIA Computing, LLC 1 Common Areas at

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Common Areas at the Heart

George Dinwiddie Software Development Consultant and Coach iDIA Computing, LLC http://idiacomputing.com/ http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/

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Common Areas at the Heart

“No social group—whether a family, a work group, or a school group—can survive without constant informal contact among its members.” Christopher Alexander A Pattern Language

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“A jelled team is a group of people so strongly knit that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Peopleware (2nd ed.) Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

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A Short Distance is a Long Way

“A study in 1977, researching the effect of distance on technical communication, found that the probability of communication rapidly decreases within the first ten meters.”

- Kenneth Crow

http://www.npd-solutions.com/collocation.html

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“What data do you need for this screen? What actions can be called from it?” “Does this total include the discounts? Can I just display it without calculations?”

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“Wait, are you two talking about ... I think what the business really wants is ... Let's check that out.”

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Working in the Team Room

Getting things done

– by working feature at a time, together

Doing things right

– by frequent and pervasive design discussions

Doing the right thing

– by alignment of understanding

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Working as a Team

Learning techniques from each other

– osmotically, implicitly, explicitly

Sense of 'teamness'
Shared food, music, good times

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“Who is the most important process person?

The one who arranges the furniture.”

- Gerald M. Weinberg

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“It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.”

- Grace Hopper

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