Context Switching 2

[dragonwell]

I found a couple articles that support my feelings on "Context Switching" - that is, having to stop what you're doing to do something else (even for five minutes) costs you orders of magnitude more than five minutes of time wasted. The first, from Joel:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html

and also here:

http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/11/how_two_hours_c.html

So what do you think? Is this a real or imagined problem? Do you have any techniques of dealing with this?



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[AlexCuse]

Talk about Context Switching. Get back to work!

(and good luck with Julie ;-) )

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom

 

[dragonwell]

Thanks for all the replies. I really like the actor/surgeon analogies. Since starting this thread I've not gotton any better at context switching, but the just awareness of it and recognizing it when it's happening helps somehow.

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