There's a definite benefit to colocation for software teams. When someone is poring over gigabytes of logs and stack traces there's no substitute for someone mo

There's a definite benefit to colocation for software teams. When someone is poring over gigabytes of logs and stack traces there's no substitute for someone more experienced looking over their shoulder, maybe grabbing their keyboard and typing in a few commands of their own then handing the keyboard back and making a few suggestions. There also is a definite benefit to letting less-skilled developers interrupt the more skilled. Skilled developers without interruption kind of become data silos. They're extremely productive, but they could have a multiplicative effect on others' productivity that is wasted. Even if most interruptions are useless, it's still worth it for the times when a senior dev stops a junior dev from wasting a week puzzling over a stack trace or implementing something useless.