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You've not worked on a trading floor, have you? 
Active Noise cancelling headphones and hard House are your friends.
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Keith Barrow wrote: *I've been in Q&A: it seems this helps to get an answer
No chance, you forgot to post your phone number, your username isn't your email address and you didn't start with "hai dears"
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Cross pollination, that’s a new way to say
“We’re cutting back on our budget and will not be hiring anyone else for awhile and we’d like to see more work from you so we are going to cross [insert current buzzword] everybody because we read about this in Forbes or Business Week.”
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I find myself in the unique position of defending my employer. To be fair, it's pretty well run here, the best dev team I worked in, run closer to a family business than not, and we're currently financially healthy (online bingo does well in a recession as it's a cheaper alternative to going out and getting hammered for our players). I genuinely think the thinking behind this is to help produce new marketing ideas/special offers/ game ideas I also think that it is a wrong move.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I genuinely think the thinking behind this is to help produce new marketing ideas/special offers/ game ideas I also think that it is a wrong move.
You get those ideas in properly controlled situations, they will not fly out randomly during the day just because different people sit near each other.
By all means encourage people to write down any stupid idea that pops into their heads so it doesn't get lost, but ideas need to be discussed and twisted and challenged. You cannot do that and normal work at the same time.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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You are one of the lucky ones, sounds like you work for a decent place. A company I used to work for, a company that had been bought out and merged several times during my employ there was always looking for ways to cut costs and they came up with clever ways of telling us they wanted more work out of us...
One of the more odd ideas they came up with was when they co-located Engineering and Marketing in an attempt to “streamline” the development cycle. Some clever egghead actually used the term Margineering. All the engineers agreed what they were getting into would definitely be Marginal.
The company I'm with now is one I'm very happy to be a part of. I work in research and for me it's like getting paid to play. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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The term that I've heard most often is silos.
I haven't experienced the "mixed" room thing personally, but the developers that I've met that had good things to say about it, also made sure they didn't work that way 100% of the time. It can help with part of the development process, and hinders other parts.
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Bedlam.
Will Rogers never met me.
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"monkey f**** a football" ?
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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Make them read Frederick Brooks The Mythical Man-Month[^] - it's still the best book about the software development process that has any chance of making sense to non-developers.
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It's called JIRA or something like that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Start openly discussing issues related to computer science. Use math and inside terminology to dominate the topics. Don't let the Type-As talk, eventually they will get tired of not being able to talk about their golf bags, and that trip they took, complain to management and you will be isolated again. When they say cross pollination of ideas, what they mean is they want programmers to act more like marketers, not marketers to think like programmers.
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That is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard.
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If the flash designer and the marketing person are attractive girls, the desirability of cross polination will probably increase dramatically.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Keith Barrow wrote: be in a room
Pretty sure that IBM did a study years ago that showed that developers are more productive when they have their own office.
Significantly so.
Keith Barrow wrote: We've been asked for our thinking on this,
My thoughts on the subject would be that one can conclude that productivity will go down.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I think there is a name for this phenomenon
PHB Syndrome ?
FUBAR Planning ?
Marc
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Keith Barrow wrote: "cross pollination of ideas"
They expect you to screw each other? (try asking next time they use the term  )
If the dev team works on one project, they stay together (that's how we've been doing it). The only "cross pollination" is when everyone meets (weekly or daily, depending on the scale of the project and other factors).
I'm with the others who say being close to noisy coworkers will only make you mad and unproductive.
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