MultiTaskingConsideredHarmful

Multi-tasking (doing more things at the same time, or rapidly switching from one task to the other) is very common in companies. The blog-posts and article below show why this is the case. A DiagramOfEffects about multi-tasking would be nice...

Making the problems of multitasking real, blog-entry by Johanna Rothman

Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea, article by Johanna Rothman. This article started a blog dialog between me (Don) and George Dinwiddie. George has added to his thoughts since my last post. I need to go see what he's added.

Multitasking makes you stupid, blog entry by Clarke Ching

Human Task Switches Considered Harmful by Joel Spolsky. This one has nice graphical examples. Clarke Ching made these into an animation for his presentation at XP Day London 2004.

MultiTaskingForProgrammers may work differently than MultiTaskingForManagers, and differently than MultiTaskingFor?... It may boil down to how large amounts of 'focus time' one needs for certain tasks, and how 'big' (many, percentage) these tasks are as a part of the job.