My company decided to try a little “experiment” for our latest project. We have a pretty large .Net project going on so they decided to stick all the programmers (11 of us) into a big conference room, so that we can work more effeciently. Before being moved into this room, we would be all over the place trying to track people down to talk about different issues, and now we are all in the same room. Plus, we are able to completely focus on our goals at hand, and are not bothered by other projects as well. All in all, it has worked out pretty well for us. There are times where it can get tough when there are multiple conversations going on and you don't want to participate, but we also utilize a small conference room next door to try to keep distractions down.
One thing that everybody has done though is invested in some good headphones so that you can tune stuff out. Lately I have started listening to some streaming radio from the Internet and was curious if anyone knows of some good places to find a good variety of stations. I have a few stations picked out from my WMP and MSN Entertainment, but would like to broaden my play list.
Any recommendations?