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And in contemporary workplaces, these
are surprisingly hard to come by.
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One of the side benefits of being a consultant
is getting intimate access to
many different work environments.
Tom DeMarco, a principal of the Atlantic
Systems Guild team of consultants,
had walked around a good number
of offices in his time, and he noticed
that some workspaces were a lot
more densely packed than others. He
wondered what effect all that social interaction
had on performance.
To find out, DeMarco and his colleague
Timothy Lister devised a study
called the Coding War Games. The purpose
of the games was to identify the
characteristics of the best and worst