<i>open floor plans suck but you get used to them</i><p>Open floor plans are <i>not</i> a requirement of &quot;agile&quot;.  That people think this, is evidence of the real problem here:  hucksters have been selling something else, but using the word &quot;agile&quot; to promote it.   If one wants to argue that the <i>term</i> &quot;agile&quot; is dead, then maybe one has a point.  But I&#x27;ll argue that the essence of agile is just as sound as it ever was, it&#x27;s just that we let the term get misappropriated.  How to proceed from here is an open question...