Productivity Tips for Programmers
The flow is what makes a programmer thrive or fail. How many interruptions did you have today? Can you stop them? Interruptions turn each day into chunks of productivity. Each interruption costs a programmer at least 10 minutes, plus the time spent during the interruption. Here are some tips to avoid interruptions and get to a flow state of mind. Kill interruptions before they kill your productivity. When was the last time that you programmed without any interruptions? Some of the tips: 1. Keep your email clients closed 2. Keep Twitter closed 3. Keep Facebook closed 4. Start tracking time spent on every project 5. Unplug your phone 6. Silence your cell phone 7. Use Slack Manage your interruptions before they manage your productivity.
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Productivity Tips for Programmers
- 1. Productivity Tips for Programmers Ombu Labs, April 2015
- 2. Productivity = Flow (hs) - Interruptions (hs)
- 3. The Flow
- 4. “A state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- 6. A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. [source]
- 8. “Hey! Can you help me with this?”
- 9. Email #32334 Subject: VERY URGENT stuff
- 10. @etagwerker hey, check out this gif! #Twitter
- 11. Tips
- 12. Keep your phone on vibrate/silent mode
- 13. Don’t keep your email client open
- 18. Don’t interrupt someone with headphones on
- 19. Start your Freckle timer widget
- 22. Go for a walk if you can’t solve a problem
- 23. Ask another developer for advice on a problem
- 24. Rubberducking on Slack or face-to-face
- 26. Thank you!
- 27. Questions?