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| JXStern 2007-04-14, 10:05 pm |
| I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
This is mostly about the *physical* work environment, with a few
questions about the *virtual* work environment.
Thanks!
J.
* Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
(I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
days, or simply offline)
* Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
* Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
between you and coworkers?
* About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
* Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
* Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
* Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
away?
* Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
* Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
* Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
* Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
work?
* (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
* What are other relevant questions about work environments?
****
(clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
practices are right now)
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| Ernie Englehart 2007-04-14, 10:05 pm |
|
"JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message =
news:sg22231r4tb146qbrt5qtoruqplh3hepvi@
4ax.com...
>I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
> welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
> some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
> say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
> just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
> environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
>=20
> This is mostly about the *physical* work environment, with a few
> questions about the *virtual* work environment.
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> J.
>=20
>=20
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
Toss up. My office is better equipped. Better desk, better phone, =
overhead storage, two monitors, dry erase marker board. My home office =
is at home, has a window, fully equipped kitchen, bedroom, cable TV, I =
don't need to get dressed :).
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
Well lit room. I know people who like to work in the dark. I know a =
lot of people who have worked in the dark most of their career. :)
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
I prefer a private office, but these days only managers and above get =
those most of the time. I'm in a cubicle. At least I'm at the end of a =
row close to windows.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
Standard cubicle. 8x8 I think.
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
Fortunately yes. I had a desktop PC with one monitor and then asked for =
and got a laptop. When I started using the laptop all the time, I =
retired the desktop and started using just the monitor. The desktop =
monitor is my main desktop and I use the laptop monitor for email, =
although it is nice to be able to drag windows from one monitor to the =
other when I need to.
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
Yes.
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
Both.
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
No.
=20
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
No.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
No. FTP. I use a thumb drive on occasion if I want to save something =
on my home PC.
=20
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
I sometimes listen to Yahoo music but not very often. It is a =
distraction. I need to think and a quiet environment is better for me.
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
I have plaques and certificates/awards I'd like to hang on my cubicle =
walls, but they are metallic. Can't find anything that I can use to =
hang the heavy plaques.
=20
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
We have a nice break area with a refrigerator, freezer, microwave, sink, =
coffee, hot water, vending, sink, tables and chairs. Microwave broke =
down the other day and we had a new one the next day. They treat us =
pretty well. We don't have a cafeteria or kiosk though, which would be =
nice.
> ****
>=20
> (clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
> physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
> practices are right now)
>
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| Ali Abdel-Aziz 2007-04-15, 4:03 am |
| On Apr 14, 7:21 pm, JXStern <JXSternChange...@gte.net> wrote:
> I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
> welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
> some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
> say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
> just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
> environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
>
> This is mostly about the *physical* work environment, with a few
> questions about the *virtual* work environment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> J.
>
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
In My previous Company I prefer to stay all the day in the company.
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
Dark Room.
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
cubicle part-walls was good I didn't tried any other option.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
>
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
No
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
>
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
I have worked some period against server far a way, then all work was
locally and sent as patches.
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
I work on my labtop which my company payed 1/2 of its price.
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
I work on my labtop which my company payed 1/2 of its price.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
I used it but not frequently.
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
>
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
>
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
>
> ****
>
> (clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
> physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
> practices are right now)
| |
| Alvin Ryder 2007-04-16, 4:04 am |
| On Apr 15, 3:21 am, JXStern <JXSternChange...@gte.net> wrote:
> I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
> welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
> some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
> say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
> just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
> environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
>
> This is mostly about the *physical* work environment, with a few
> questions about the *virtual* work environment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> J.
>
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
>
# My main office is at home, but I'll let "work" mean at customer's
site.
# Home is better because I've got all my stuff there, books, better
web, more computers ... but it's boring by myself.
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
>
# As light as possible for business programming (j2ee), as dark as
possible for games development.
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
>
# At home I have walls and a locked door, on-site usually cubicles.
Either is fine.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
>
# Home office is about 3.5x3.5 meters but crammed with stuff. On-site
usually open and big.
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
>
# Depends on type of work, usually only need one physical monitor but
always have multiple virtual desktops. New lappy has 1920x1200 pixels
so I feel less urge for that 2nd monitor.
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
>
# 4 at home, 1 on-site and several web boxes located in a "real"
computer room
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
>
# All of the above
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
>
# Do you mean less than or less than or equal to 1280x1024? I'll
assume latter. In that case I have a Sony 17" with 3 inputs which I
keep as a spare (just as well my 20" Dell 1600x1200 has crapped out).
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
>
# Hmmm sort of. I have a 32" LCD TV connected to all my computers (vga
splitter and kvm) but since it only has 1366x768 pixels its only good
for games and the occasional web surf.
Otherwise I was going to buy a 24" 1920x1200 but since the new laptop
has that res I don't feel the urge any more.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
>
# Yes. I zip all my source code and encrypt it. Sad thing is entire
life's work fits on one lousy 2G drive.
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
>
# I need some noise or else I nearly fall asleep but on-site some guys
can get too loud, so I cancel noise with headphones.
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
>
# Nothing.
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
>
# Q) What is the most productive environment you know?
Home office has no distractions or noise but it's too quiet. My head
works best when stimulated by a just the right amount of noise and
distraction.
1. Intercity train ride is the best. It has the right kind of noise.
2. Uni library is ok. People walking around provide good noise,
chatter box students bad noise.
3. On-Site varies a lot. Some client sites a near impossible to work
at
Q2) When are you most productive?
In the morning, say 8:30 to 11:30 I can solve the hardest problems.
During that time I avoid email and phone answering if possible so I
can capitalize on the extra neural power.
> ****
>
> (clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
> physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
> practices are right now)
# I don't think space is getting tighter now. It depends on:-
1. Where you are - if directly in the heart of the CBD then space
costs a premium, yes it can get tight. But so much as one or two
blocks away things get noticeably more spacious.
2. If its a new business that is exploding they tend to outgrow many
things, including office space. Again things can get very tight.
# Cheers.
| |
| H. S. Lahman 2007-04-16, 4:04 am |
| Responding to JXStern...
> I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
> welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
> some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
> say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
> just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
> environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
I'm retired so this is mostly pre-retirement.
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
Home. Fewer distractions.
>
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
Relatively dark ambient for better screen contrast. But need normal
lighting available when not at a terminal.
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
Full office with door.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
8'x6' at work but that's not enough; too many books and file cabinets.
>
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
No.
>
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
One work station was mine; a gazillion servers were available.
>
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
Collocated elsewhere, mostly on the same floor. (This was R-T/E, not IT
so servers were for backup, version control, process data collection, etc.)
>
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
1600x1200
>
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
25"
>
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
Only when going off-site. Everything else available on LAN via and
everyone defined a directory structure on their machine for network sharing.
>
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
Quiet. No head phones needed if one has a real office.
<Hot Button>
Psychologists have determined that full concentration can be broken in a
fraction of a second but it can take up to 15 minutes to recover it
afterwards. For an intellectual activity like software design noise is
probably the single biggest detriment to productivity and reliability.
Our company was into militant process improvement so we ran our own
experiments in addition to evaluating the literature. That led to things
like everyone having a phone where one could turn of the ringer Do Not
Disturb signs that were strictly honored, and hallway conversations were
verboten (if you wanted to ask how somebody's mom was, you pulled them
in to one of the ubiquitous conference rooms or a common area).
Our shop produced 5-Sigma commercial software with productivity that was
integer factors greater than published data from major houses doing the
same sort of software. IMO, noise reduction was a major contributor to
the record.
</Hot Button>
>
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
Both.
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| |
| JXStern 2007-04-16, 4:04 am |
| On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:51:03 GMT, "H. S. Lahman"
<h.lahman@verizon.net> wrote:
>Responding to JXStern...
>
>
>I'm retired so this is mostly pre-retirement.
HS, take a look at the other answers!
I'm finding the answers so far already very interesting, and have more
comments on what you and others have said, but I'll wait first and
hope for some more contributions come the workw before saying
anything more.
J.
| |
| Dmitry A. Kazakov 2007-04-16, 4:04 am |
| On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:21:20 GMT, JXStern wrote:
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
Comparable
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
Normally-lit
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
Full walls with a window and a door which I do have. But I believe that
no-walls were better for larger projects.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
7-8 mē
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
Yes (at work), no (at home)
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
Yes
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
The first
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
No
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
Umm, these days LCDs are measured differently than CRTs. I guess no.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
Once a day for backup
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
Quiet environment. Working at home I hear audio CDs, but no more than 2-3
albums a day.
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
Nothing at work, and some artworks at home.
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
- That higher management had no entry in the room, except when the building
is on fire and there is no other way out.
- No cleaners during working hours.
- Rock-hard schedule of meetings.
- No telephones, no *any* telephones.
- A couch with a chalkboard and a coffee machine nearby.
> (clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
> physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
> practices are right now)
I think that the statistics would depend on the respondent's level in the
hierarchy.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
| |
|
|
> I have some questions about trends in work environments, responses
> welcome to any or all. I presume anyone reading and answering here is
> some kind of working software engineer/developer, so if not, please
> say - if not currently working, and I know there are plenty of those,
> just say from your last gig. In fact, I'm curious about any and all
> environments in which you've worked in, oh, the last five years or so.
>
> This is mostly about the *physical* work environment, with a few
> questions about the *virtual* work environment.
>
> Thanks!
>
> J.
>
>
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
>
Default practice is to work at the office.
In rare cases I work at home.
And it depends on the better criteria what is best:
- at the office you have the social contacts, colleges feedback and
advise, faster network connection to the server and stuff like that
- at home you have a quiet environment and your personal stuff like
audio, kitchen and so on.
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
>
A normally-lit room.
I would like to work outside sometimes, but the contrast on the laptop
is far too bad for that.
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
>
A full two persons office
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
>
6-8 square meter
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
Yes, the laptop screen and a second monitor
>
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
>
No
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
>
Nearby
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
>
No
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
>
No
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
>
Yes, for testing on the run-time system. USB2 is faster then a LAN
connection and I don't have to map drives .
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
I prefer some low background noise (like music).
I have always a feeling I miss something when I wear headphones.
>
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
>
Only a calendar and a white board
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
>
It is written down earlier, but also counts for me.
We are in a office space with about 15 people (multi-discipline,
multi-project) and that is nice to be kept informed on your own project.
The downside is that it is far too noise to do some really concentrated
work. I already noticed a few times that I had made some really beginner
mistakes due to distractions (or just because I forgot what I was doing).
And then we have phones, e-mail, chats to support engineers on the other
side of the world, people coming in and start asking questions or even
worse stories about what they did in the wend.
And that is nice when you are busy with some kind of presentation or
document, but not when writing specifications or code.
However, the site management doesn't care.
> ****
>
> (clearly the trend over the past ten years has been to smaller
> physical workspaces, but I'm wondering just what the most common
> practices are right now)
>
| |
| William 2007-04-16, 7:03 pm |
| > * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
I prefer to work in an office if it's convenient. Easier to stay
focused that way. Too many distractions at home. (And VPN isn't
as good as a direct connection.)
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
At my age, I need moderate room light or my depth of focus drops
off and I can't read the monitor/notes/books as well. (Right now
I've two of six 40W tubes let in a 10x14' office - some days I
need four.)
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
Full office. No question.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
140 SF - about 60% of that is usable space, the rest is storing old
desks, chairs, monitors, etc.
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
I have three machines on two monitors, but not a dual monitor setup.
(It'd be nice, but the machines I have don't support it.)
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
Yes.
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
Both.
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
No. (19" LCD and 20" CRT)
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
I wish.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
Occasionally, if I remember where it is. More likely to burn a
CD.
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
Reasonably quiet, no conversations or ringing phones, my choice of
music or no music, no headphones (can't stand them). I flat won't
work for a company that has a noisy environment (it reflects poorly
on their basic intelligence).
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
A couple of bits of art, mostly notes and diagrams I need to stay
on top of. Also have a 4'x6' white board (wish it was larger) and
a 2'x3' cork board (ditto).
-Wm
| |
| JXStern 2007-04-19, 10:02 pm |
| On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:51:03 GMT, "H. S. Lahman"
<h.lahman@verizon.net> wrote:
><Hot Button>
>Psychologists have determined that full concentration can be broken in a
>fraction of a second but it can take up to 15 minutes to recover it
>afterwards. For an intellectual activity like software design noise is
>probably the single biggest detriment to productivity and reliability.
>
>Our company was into militant process improvement so we ran our own
>experiments in addition to evaluating the literature. That led to things
>like everyone having a phone where one could turn of the ringer Do Not
>Disturb signs that were strictly honored, and hallway conversations were
>verboten (if you wanted to ask how somebody's mom was, you pulled them
>in to one of the ubiquitous conference rooms or a common area).
>
>Our shop produced 5-Sigma commercial software with productivity that was
>integer factors greater than published data from major houses doing the
>same sort of software. IMO, noise reduction was a major contributor to
>the record.
></Hot Button>
H.S., I absolutely agree with you on this. Hey, anyone who takes a
class in human factors would. Then, why is the industry trend,
including many people's expressed PREFERENCES, for other environments?
Why is it not known to IT management? Well, I could answer that, but
the facts speak for themselves.
Though I might take a large, high-walled cube with a window and a
view, over an inside office.
MY hot button is wall space. When I work, I cover every available
vertical surface with work-related documents. Why? For the same
reason people want large monitors, it's external info that you can
access without loading your own memory. It dramatically helps with
productivity. This is also human factors 101 stuff. Yet, I just
talked to two of my oldest friends about their current work habits -
the guys are both aces - and they don't hang documents, either. Sad.
So, I gather that when the Big Name companies set up new workspaces
for their developers, give them no walls and two monitors, they get no
complaints. Except for us old foggies and an occassional human
factors guy, that most places don't have anyway. This is for
developers making six figure salaries, btw, not just junior staff.
Includes "project managers" and other such types.
Just all marks of the degeneracy of the software profession today.
Ah, well.
J.
| |
| Lee Riemenschneider 2007-04-20, 10:03 pm |
| On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:21:20 UTC, JXStern <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net>
wrote:
> * Do you have a better work environment at the office or at home?
> (I assume many who work, do at least some work from home via VPN these
> days, or simply offline)
>
Home. The office is not set up well knowledge work.
> * Do you like to work in a dark room or a normally-lit room?
>
Normal light.
> * Do you prefer full office walls, cubicle part-walls, or no-walls
> between you and coworkers?
>
Full walls and a door that can be locked.
> * About how many square feet (meters) comprise your own workspace?
>
I probably have 6' x 3' of space to use in my cubical at the office.
At home, I have a 10' x 10' room.
> * Do you have a two-monitor workstation?
>
No. I don't like them.
> * Do you have multiple workstations/servers in your own workspace?
>
Yes.
> * Do you work against servers nearby and accessible, or colocated far
> away?
>
Colocated far away in the office.
> * Do you have a (single) monitor smaller than 1280x1024?
>
No.
> * Do you have a monitor(s) larger than 22" diagonal?
>
No.
> * Do you frequently use a flash "thumb"-drive to move files?
>
Seldom.
> * Do you prefer a quiet environment, a noisy environment, or
> background music or radio station? Do you often wear iPod-style
> headphones at work? Do you often wear noise-cancelling headphones at
> work?
>
Quiet.
> * (if you have walls), do you hang work-related documents, or
> decorative art/pictures, or nothing?
>
I try to share knowledge by hanging good articles on the wall, or
things that expose inadequacies in the company/work environment.
> * What are other relevant questions about work environments?
>
I think it would be easier to just buy a copy of Peopleware by Tom
DeMarco and Timothy Lister to find out what is the best environment
for knowledge workers.
--
Lee W. Riemenschneider
GO BOILERS!
Running eComStation (eCS)(the latest incarnation of OS/2)
Buy eCS everyone! Buy it now! http://www.ecomstation.com
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| JXStern 2007-04-20, 10:03 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:13:10 +0000 (UTC), "Lee Riemenschneider"
<newsuser@frogooa.com> wrote:
>No. I don't like them.
Strangely, neither do I, ... though I've only tried for short periods.
I prefer one 1280x or so, and lots of wall and desk space.
>Seldom.
I ask because my use of them often occurs when moving big (100m/1g)
files between domains. Well, not that often, but often enough. When
I'm in domain X, want to give someone in domain Y a file, because it
will take two days for them to get permission otherwise. Just an
aside, it's barely an "environment" issue, even virtual environment.
>I try to share knowledge by hanging good articles on the wall, or
>things that expose inadequacies in the company/work environment.
Eg, Dilbert?
>I think it would be easier to just buy a copy of Peopleware by Tom
>DeMarco and Timothy Lister to find out what is the best environment
>for knowledge workers.
Yeah but nobody does anymore.
Why not?
J.
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| William 2007-04-24, 7:04 pm |
| "JXStern" <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:13:10 +0000 (UTC), "Lee Riemenschneider"
> <newsuser@frogooa.com> wrote:
>
>
> Strangely, neither do I, ... though I've only tried for short periods.
> I prefer one 1280x or so, and lots of wall and desk space.
I wasn't sure I would, but thought I'd give it a try. I bought
a 20" widescreen and put it on a pivot mount to the side of my
19" LCD. (The 20" hides the printer but the output tray is
accessible under the edge and I can swing it away to load more
paper, change ink, etc.)
I use it to park windows running things I need to monitor, but
don't have to work on. Also for holding reference documents,
etc. - pretty much what you do with walls (which I also use).
Unlike a wall, though, it's dynamic. (And handy for playing
the occasional movie while I work.)
This is at home, my systems at work won't support two monitors.
-Wm
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