When walking around our development teams, we should see developers huddled around screens / whiteboards discussing stuff. A lot less code gets written this way — but I’d argue the overall value added to a business is higher than if everyone has their headphones on and is developing at a thousand lines of code a minute.
Measuring Code Quality
David Genn
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Totally agree! Building a sense of self-governance and ownership will have such an impact on the culture and delivery of the teams involved, and ultimately the company as a whole.