Why Developers Hate Distractions

Coming out of a holiday week the guys full on turkey and dressing discuss the impact that distractions have on developers and productivity as well as ways for both developers and management to minimize the amount to distractions faced by developers in a day. They begin looking at the effect of distractions on other professions and explain what a distraction means to a developer. Next Will and BJ talk about the effects of distractions on developers from the productivity as well as the psychological aspect. They end the episode discussing ways that developers and then management can work to minimize distractions. Links Hipster Ipsum IoT List Joel on Software Wireshark Editor’s Note: Apologies for this being published a little later than usual. We ran into some technical difficulties with Audacity.