Continuing the discussion on office layout

[benchristel]

About a week ago, @professor opened #2, presenting a counterpoint to my over-hasty claim that "open-plan offices don't work". See the Neighborly Teams pattern for context. I merged the pull request, but I feel like it's worth digging deeper into this issue.

Since having a conversation on a closed PR is annoying, I'm opening this issue so we can have a place to discuss our experiences with various types of office plans.

I found this Ph.D thesis which investigates the situations in which open-plan offices are effective at promoting collaboration. It's long, but this article provides a summary.

@software-patterns/everyone here's a discussion question: thinking back on your career, what were your favorite spaces to work in? Describe them. We'll analyze them together. You can make ASCII-art floor plan doodles as I did in Neighborly Teams. Or, if you're a high-tech person with a camera, you can take pictures of real doodles.

[amilkh]

is quiet-office.md deleted?

[benchristel]

Good catch, @amilkh, I renamed it to Neighborly Teams to reflect my changing thoughts about the matter.