Comments on: Distraction free development department. http://www.paul-zubkov.com/2009/07/06/distraction-free-development-department/ Fri, 14 May 2010 16:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ hourly 1 By: paulzubkov http://www.paul-zubkov.com/2009/07/06/distraction-free-development-department/comment-page-1/#comment-83 paulzubkov Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:26:40 +0000 http://www.paul-zubkov.com/?p=129#comment-83 While I can see your point of being accessible by all people involved, this situation is completely different. People who would bother us had no relations to the product being developed, basically another division of the company, but they figured that coders are there to help them solve their issues. Right now we are communicating with people who are involved in the project, but the rest of the company left us alone. While I can see your point of being accessible by all people involved, this situation is completely different. People who would bother us had no relations to the product being developed, basically another division of the company, but they figured that coders are there to help them solve their issues. Right now we are communicating with people who are involved in the project, but the rest of the company left us alone.

]]> By: Will http://www.paul-zubkov.com/2009/07/06/distraction-free-development-department/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Will Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:45:50 +0000 http://www.paul-zubkov.com/?p=129#comment-82 I disagree. I've worked in two shops that converted their dev departments to a bullpen/newsroom style areas. No cubes or offices. We sit within earshot of the product & project managers and the user experience team. Overall team cohesion is improved as more information is informally shared between business units. Actual interruptions aren't as frequent as you'd fear, and everyone has the option to work from home or grab a small conference room if they require time to themselves. The devs who need to shut out noise wear headphones. That said, at my current company our IT department is completely cordoned off. I disagree. I've worked in two shops that converted their dev departments to a bullpen/newsroom style areas. No cubes or offices. We sit within earshot of the product & project managers and the user experience team. Overall team cohesion is improved as more information is informally shared between business units. Actual interruptions aren't as frequent as you'd fear, and everyone has the option to work from home or grab a small conference room if they require time to themselves. The devs who need to shut out noise wear headphones.

That said, at my current company our IT department is completely cordoned off.

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