The article is a bit off the mark. Teamwork is orthogonal to focus. Professional sports teams spend a significant amount of time learning how to drive out distr

The article is a bit off the mark. Teamwork is orthogonal to focus. Professional sports teams spend a significant amount of time learning how to drive out distractions and focus under high pressure. Wanting to focus does not make you introverted. It is important for high performance regardless of team size. Again, practices like agile are orthogonal to introversion. Some of the most communication heavy projects I have worked on have been waterfall based. Pair programming is team based work. The problem with it is the constant communication is distracting for everybody else in the office. This is easily fixed by having proper offices instead of an open floor plan.... but I've yet to work at such an amazing place.