Re:Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
by logfromblammo on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:14PM
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I worked in a place that called it "spiral". Because they did the phases of waterfall over and over again, until finally drilling down through the roof of Hell.
Yes, it was horrible.
Yes, it got worse when they added the mandatory omnibus all-hands standup scheduled for 8:45-9:00 every morning, that always somehow lasted until at least 9:30, because everyone was continually justifying their existence.
And it was redundant with the spreadsheets that recorded the time spent on any particular task, down to the second.
Yes, it was horrible.
Yes, it got worse when they added the mandatory omnibus all-hands standup scheduled for 8:45-9:00 every morning, that always somehow lasted until at least 9:30, because everyone was continually justifying their existence.
And it was redundant with the spreadsheets that recorded the time spent on any particular task, down to the second.