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How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities

yodon

40 or so years later, the book Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister remains the best quantitative study on environmental impacts on developer productivity.

The world has changed significantly since it was written, so you have to translate their measurements to modern contexts, but it's easier to translate real data on human behavior than to guess based on guesses.

froh

the OP is a journalistic summary of

Breaking the Flow: A Study of Interruptions During Software Engineering Activities

Yimeng Ma, Yu Huang, Kevin Leach

(2024) icsi Portugal

it's not properly quoted, but it's directly linked, prominently.

yes, I agree, peopleware is on the must have reading list, but this article certainly is not guesses on guesses

black_13

Agile is number one interuption of all enginnering activity .