The Agile Team Room

During a recent training course, we discussed the agile team room, especially the whiteboard space for modelling. Fortunately, Mike Cohn just published a blog, listing the essential features for The Ideal Agile Workspace:

• Big Visible Charts
• Additional feedback devices
• Everyone on your team
• The sprint backlog
• The product backlog
• At least one big white board
• Someplace quiet and private
• Food and drink, and finally
• A window
  

The comments link to several implementations of this list. For instance, one of the comments link to a tour through the msdn Patterns and Practices Lab and a peek inside the p&p Team Room. Of course, these are quite advanced implementations of Mike's list, but show how important these companies find the physical environment.