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Giving the green or red card to management :)

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Have you been to a Brazillian buffet house? At these restaurants, waiters come around constantly with some meat, and will slice it off for you if you are showing the green YES:

Green Card: Yes Please

If you need some time to relax and digest you show red:

Red Card: No Thanks

Sometimes it would be nice to show this card to management. For example, when you get into the programming zone, wouldn’t it be nice to say “please don’t come around with small talk right now?”

Back in the day, I put in a policy which meant that management couldn’t bug my dev team during certain hours (unless they planned a meeting in advance etc). It was amazing to see the productivity gains from this simple measure.

Don’t be scared to show the red card! :)

4 Responses to “Giving the green or red card to management :)”

  1. David Roussel Says:

    Yes, I once worked on a team where we implement a do-no-disurb time for the whole team every day, from 2pm to 4pm. It took quite a while for the analysts and testers to get used to this, but it did help get ones head down.
    Unsuprisingly it was quite controversial.

  2. Tiago Silveira Says:

    This is a really good idea. The “Rodizio” cards should be even better (for the developer) than prescheduled DND… the problem is that some developers might never show the green card!! : )

  3. Neeraj Kumar's drive by thougths on ....well whatever he drives by Says:

    Giving the green or red card to management :)

  4. william Says:

    wow, it a very interesting and cute idea. i like it alot

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