Timeline for How to distribute development and bug fixes tasks
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 11:25 | comment | added | anon | @CapBarracudas The comment on happiness was personal observation rather than anything I have evidence for. But, in general, if you're doing something that stops someone being productive, it will also stop them being happy. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 21:05 | comment | added | Joshua Drake | @CapBarracudas not research, but illustrative: imgur.com/xvNRKIT | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 19:14 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @CapBarracudas there are a few numbers typically tossed around as to how long an interruption costs a developer to get their mind back to the state they were earlier in an attempt to quantify the cost of interruptions. They are based on some study(ies?), I don't know the quality of, but here is one article as an example that talks about it brightdevelopers.com/… google is your friend to find more, e.g. contextkeeper.io/blog/… | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 13:37 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | @CapBarracudas, imagine every morning you plan to do X, Y and Z that day, but then you get constant interruptions so that at the end of the week none of those tasks are done. How happy would you go into your weekend? | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 12:43 | vote | accept | Cap Barracudas | ||
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:59 | comment | added | Cap Barracudas | @JackAidley I understand the productivity part (and have resources on it). Have you got any resource(book/research results/article) on how interruptions affect developers happiness?(although I understand it empirically) | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:54 | comment | added | anon | @CapBarracudas Unless there is a genuine emergency, you need to stop that happening. Programmers need to be able to concentrate on what they're doing to stay productive and happy. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:52 | comment | added | Cap Barracudas | @JackAidley Not me, but yes. They get interrupted. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:50 | comment | added | anon | @CapBarracudas Are you literally interrupting the developer to get them to stop what they're doing and switch to fixing a bug? | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:50 | comment | added | Hans-Martin Mosner | A team consisting of a single developer means a bus factor of 1. They get hit by a bus (or go on vacation, or decide that there are other more interesting jobs) and then you're without a team. Not good. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:48 | comment | added | Cap Barracudas | What makes you say the situation is not sustainable?That the constant interruptions are upsetting? | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:41 | comment | added | Cap Barracudas | It is true that the app they support is old and was built with low quality standards. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 11:34 | history | answered | Hans-Martin Mosner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |