How agile can you go?
We moved into new office last month. It is not merely about flashy new building and furnitures. It comes with new way of working in the office, 'agile system' as they call it. In the old office, everyone had spacious dedicated work station. Large L-shape desk was more than enough for desk phone, laptop docking, wide-screen monitor, keyboard and mouse. Rest of surface could still keep piles of moving documents and other things. Everyone has drawer and two storeys metal cabinet to store even more documents, books and other stuffs. All yours. You are free to display your private sentimental stuffs on the desk (picture frame is typical example), since you will definitely come back there tomorrow morning. Bosses have their own offices. Sounds like a normal office set up, doesn't it? So, what agile system does to you? Under agile system, no one has dedicated desk anymore, not even Bosses who also lost their offices. Everyone is working in the same big hall without parti...