On 2/12/14, 8:49 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 16:16:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/12/14, 12:34 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
The thing is, we do almost have it, because it's not a huge thing to
implement. Low hanging fruit vs long-term priorities.
There's this thing in psychology - when confronted with too many
unprioritized tasks, people will consistently choose the easiest ones.
Yep. When overwhelmed, it's particularly welcome to be making
quantifiable progress on something. Anything. And in many cases it
really is worth interspersing the easy tasks with the hard ones just to
keep morale up, even if those easy tasks are really not terribly
important from a priorities perspective. Of course, the flip-side of
that is feature creep, when too much time is spent on the low-priority
easy stuff. I think every programmer needs to learn this balance at
some point, as an aid to avoiding burnout.
There's always answering email and posting to forums :o).
Andrei
