John Brothers has posted the latest edition of the Carnival, entitled I’m running late. This is a perennial topic for all software development projects, and doubly so for those of us who take a lean or TOC view of productivity and change, so props to John for bringing that focus to the carnival this time… [Read more…]
April 17, 2006
As you’ll know by now, I can’t abide multi-tasking. This week, Johanna Rothman has been stirring the waters in an attempt to raise awareness that multi-tasking is bad. In particular, there’s a lot of great meat in the comments on that post (I particularly liked Jürgen Ahting’s reply). Well worth a read.
March 24, 2006
Over a year ago I wrote about the muda of multi-tasking and the delays it will inevitably cause. I had been prompted by the planning approach used by my client at the time, and by a rush of articles in various blogs and magazines, and this week it’s happening all over again. Kathy Sierra discusses… [Read more…]
December 13, 2004
The other day I noticed an interesting side-effect of multi-tasking… In the very strange organisation where I currently work everyone works on many pieces of work simultaneously. And the historical mind-set means that every task or workflow item requires many people to complete it. This week a number of times I found myself frustrated because… [Read more…]
December 2, 2004
Multi-tasking seems to be the topic of the week: Clark says it makes you stupid; Johanna has developed a new workshop simulation to demonstrate the problems it can cause; and Tony Rizzo has written about it here, here and here in the last couple of weeks alone! (I haven’t seen any case studies per se,… [Read more…]
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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