Tips for Escaping Development Hell

You might find the working environment you and your team has found to be successful in the past, is now working against you. A change can be good for a number of reasons:

- getting people to collaborate or getting people to isolate themselves (to focus) - a change of scenery can help break people out of established contexts. Just changing the desk they work at can help.

Some real world examples I have seen:

- isolating a core team of 2 programmers into a "crunch office". - going to work in a coffee shop, instead of out of my home office - changing the desks/seating arrangements of a team to change counterproductive team dynamics

Basically, don't underestimate the effect the working environment might be having on your productivity. If things arent going as well as you are hoping, think about what specific steps you can take to change things for the better.