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Jul 27

The Flow: Don’t let your developers get interrupted

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If someone jumps into your cube/office and asks a quick question, what is the effect?

I don’t know about you, but I often “get into the flow” when developing. My brain is kicking into a high gear (maybe thanks for caffeine? ;) and my fingers are dancing like a 2 dollar…..

If I get interrupted at this point it means that either:

  • It will take me ~15 minutes to get back into the flow after the interuption
  • I may not totally get back into it

Back when I was a shinny shoe guy (Technical Director) I put in a policy which meant that developers couldn’t be bugged between 2 and 4 (or something) unless a meeting was scheduled of course, and email can still be used (nice and passive).

Sometimes I wish I had that policy around…. how about you?

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