Osmotic Communication


Have you heard words like Tune In or Tune Out? If not, then you can relate it to the old radio system where listeners used to use a circular button to adjust the radio frequency so that they can hear what they want.
The same concept is being applied in project management as well.

Osmotic communication, is a form of team communication where team members listens to the talks within the team. The information flows from background conversations. People in the team can tune in or tune out as per their needs.
This enables them to have more insights in the project and have more questions.

This works in Agile way of working where team is located at same geographical location. Usually the seating arrangement is made in such a way that entire team is in same bay or they are seated around a table in same room. So that everybody can hear everybody is talking.

Unless any team member is not tuned in to some loud music ;)

To get more out of osmotic communication, team has to be physically and mentally present with other team members.
This technic is not so effective in case virtual or geographically distributed teams.

 History:
Osmotic communications is a term created by Alistair Cockburn and originally described in his 2004 book Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams (1) and then again in his 2006 book Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game.
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