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Get Your (Work)Flow On!

Among other things, we got to chatting about Steve’s favourite topic, Value Stream Mapping, and how most companies tend to focus on optimizing on the wrong things.

When I was working at my last organization, I remember how baffled Bernard was with, what he regards as, the heavy use of email.

As a developer, when you’re in “the zone”, interruptions are super extra annoying, and it takes a significant amount of time to context switch from answering emails to getting back to your train of thought in your code.

That’s a sign that the meeting you’re in is probably a waste of your time.

Sometimes, you have to get a deliverable out the door, and you don’t have time for the stream of people constantly popping over to your desk unannounced.