Succeeding with Agile

Facilities

Any team that has tried to do Scrum in an inappropriate workspace knows how difficult it can be. An ideal workspace will support team members as they learn to work in an agile manner. Unfortunately, there are many less-than-ideal workspaces that actually impede a team’s efforts. In fact, a team’s physical workspace can have so much influence on how it works that Gerald Weinberg has asked, “Who is the most important process person? The one who arranges the furniture” (Dinwiddie 2007, 208).

A team’s physical environment can have so much influence on how agile the team can become that in the second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres elevated an “Informative Workspace” to the level of a primary practice ...