Design of Programmer Spaces
Siddharta Govindaraj
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com

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Programming as
— Individual activity
— Social activity

\"As long as workers are crowded
into noisy, sterile, disruptive
space, it's not worth improving
anything but the workspace.\"

Individual factors
— Sunlight
— Noise
— Space
— Comfort

Do you have windows?

Noise shielding
— Internal Noise
— External Noise

IBM Research for Santa Teresa
— 100 sq. ft per person
— 30 sq. ft work surface (tables)

Can you customise your
workspace?

Semco Employee Handbook
Ricardo Semler

People's Work Habits
— 30% Working alone
— 50% With 1 person
— 20% With > 1 person

Caves and Commons
Agile Software Development,
Alistair Cockburn

Private Office at Adobe
Photo from Photoshop News

A war room layout
Simon Baker

Questions?
Siddharta Govindaraj
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com