Context switching is killing your gains (part 2)
How do we defend our team from distractions? Adhoc meetings, poorly organized team ceremonies, rework, and a host of other demands?
There are a lot of distractions out there, sapping our productivity, keeping us from gettings things done. In part 1 of this article, I talked about how badly context switching can hurt our productivity and how to recapture that lost time on a personal level.
So how do we defend our team from an influx of distractions? Adhoc meetings, poorly organized team ceremonies, rework, and a host of other demands?
Something I love about agile (as a general practice) is how successful teams benefit from it’s relentless focus on productivity. The other side of that coin is that when it’s not working, there isn’t a lot of structure to get things back on track. Agile ceremonies are supposed to keep us focused, but which ceremonies?
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