[AusNOG] ABW from a technical team perspective?

[Christopher Pollock]

Absolutely agree; we've got that set up - I'm no more equipped in my office
than at home, or sitting in a cafe somewhere.

But, I'm a lot less useful in those places due to my lack of physical
proximity to the people with whom I need to converse frequently, or that I
get benefit from overhearing.  I may have the same tool-set at home but I
definitely get less done when I'm not directly next to the rest of my team.

That said, I get vastly more done when I don't have to deal with people who
aren't in my team.  I'm sure we've all experienced being super-productive
between 5pm and 7pm after everyone leaves and stops interrupting you.

I don't know about ABW, but if I were trying to optimise for our industry,
I'd get all the people who'd normally converse by email & phone in the same
room, and do my best to keep everyone else away from them so
inter-department work can be scheduled instead of a SIGINT.

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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Cox wrote:
>
> > I could see it working in an environment where significant
> metrics/displays could be made available throughout various areas of the
> building so that NOC/Networking staff could go out, sit beside the people
> they need to work with to get XYZ project done, but still be able to
> maintain their core roles.
>
> This whole emphasis on physical location and physical presence seems
> bizarre, to me.  Oughtn't the goal to be able to leverage modern technology
> so as to accomplish anything from anywhere with anybody?
>
> Australia is a big place.  Oughtn't VPN/telecommuting, 3G/4G mobility,
> virtual NOC capabilities, and so forth be the norm rather than the
> exception?
>
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