Scheduling, prioritizing, and context-switching issues may be getting in the way of your team’s productivity. Here are three approaches to overcome these hurdles.
Building software is a creative activity. It has a lot in common with other engineering disciplines, but bits and bytes don’t follow the same discrete rules as steel and concrete. Code is malleable and rules for organizing it are anything but hard and fast.
The creative problem-solving required to work within complex systems requires software engineers to hold a massive amount of context in their heads as they work. That context is like a house of cards, slow to assemble and easy to disrupt.