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I like open plan offices. The increased collaboration is a plain and albviius benefit for me as a developer. A site crushing issue was solved in 30 seconds du
by Marazan 8y ago
I like open plan offices.
The increased collaboration is a plain and albviius benefit for me as a developer.
A site crushing issue was solved in 30 seconds due to me overhearing a conversation in ouropen plan office. Without that it would have been at least 3 hours of pass the parcel to work out what incredibly obscure thing with timezones had happened.
- delecti 8y agoHow many such situations don't happen despite an open office, because the person who could have solved it was wearing noise blocking headphones? Most discussions near me don't require my attention, so none of them get my attention.
- nucleardog 8y agoEither I listen to none of the discussions and remove any apparent benefit of collaboration in an open office, or I listen to all of the discussions, and I accomplish nothing personally. You can pay me to focus, or you can pay me to listen to conversations and look for opportunities to help. You can't have me do both.
- loco5niner 8y ago... and the issue was probably initially caused by a programmer being distracted in their open office.
- Marazan 8y agoIt really wasn't. It was a perfect storm intersection of seemingly disparate unrelated changes (and lack of changes).