Our development team is working on multiple titles in parallel and their work includes daily business stuff like small features and bugfixes as well as projects. If a project is a little bigger we try to organize a fixed sub-team for it.

And lock them in a room!

Ok, we don’t lock them in but we separate them from the others into a dedicated room. This small project team is a mixed one with people from other teams joining forces so placing them in a shared room gives us the following benefits:

• Direct communication between project team members instead of running from room to room or talking over the phone.
• A project team commitment as people get a feeling of togetherness.
• Less distraction as each team members phone number will not be moved!
• More focus on the project’s goal as this will be the main concern for everybody in that room.
• A stable information hub for contributors that will all come to this room instead of the developers going to theirs.

Currently we have a project running in a warroom and so far it’s a pleasant experience for everybody involved.

warroom

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