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I like jumping to other project and doing some work on them for a month or two and then jumping back to main project. The thing is that when I jump back to other projects my attention is completely there, and for that time I'm off the project I was first working until my work there is done.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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I don't mind working on multiple projects, but I can't stand when one immediately becomes a priority over the others. This happens way too often every day. Even when I set aside blocks of time to be undisturbed, it doesn't happen.
It would just be nice to focus for a few hours on a single task.
Brad
If you think you can, you will.
If you think you can't, you won't.
Either way, you're right.
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2 projects at 50/50 are fine. A 25% or smaller share isn't bad in the planning, wrap up, or post-deployment bugfix stages (assuming you did a good job coding anyway), or any time you're basically on-call to provide support as needed. However, it is maddening when trying to do main development since your choices are either breaking it into very small time slices and not being able to do a major feature in one session or having your time slices spread far enough apart that you lose a significant amount of time to trying to reload your mental context from the last time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Working on multiple projects at once it depend on human working capability. But I think Working on multiple projects at once it good practice.
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you can work for an asian firms - they love guys who can work on number of projects same time for half the wage.
dev
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but then you probably already know don't you!
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I know this things, bcz I am a Bangladeshi.
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I'm a man, I'm genetically programmed for single-tasking - according to my wife.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Bull. You can surf through dozens of TV channels, read the newspaper, eat breakfast and browse the internet all at the same time, can't you?
(Disclaimer: no responsibility accepted on what happens after you tell the wife this)
BTW I have no preference in these lean times, and any work is better than no work.
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Indivara wrote: any work is better than no work.
Regards.
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M.D.V.
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I prefer to work on a single project at a time, but I have to work on multiple projects at once.
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This is more the standard process.
Personally, I prefer to work on a single project at a time. For those that say they get bored & like to switch between projects, I find that a project has several different aspects that need work so I can switch between different tasks within the same project to stop myself from getting stuck.
Prefer 1, usually need to work on many.
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Working on a single project at a time is not very productive, nor involving.
But "multiple projects" is too generic: I think that the ideal situation is having exactly 2 projects to work on, so that when you get bored of one or you get stuck on it, you can always switch to the other. Working on more than 2 projects is too dispersive, though.
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Aiscrim wrote: when you get bored of one or you get stuck on it, you can always switch to the other. I switch between tasks based on their delivery requirements, not because I'm bored or encounter an impediment.
/ravi
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Well, of course I was supposing that both projects had the due date set to "yesterday", as it always happens in normal development schedules.
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Quite agree.
Isn't that what multi-monitor setups are for?
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So, if my main project is challenging I don't need anything else.
O the other hand, if I'm working on some stalled project I feel the need to challenge my self with something else.
Usually I use this to lean new things or write articles.
If I keep too much time without putting my brain on stress I get bored... too bored...
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I wonder why someone gave me 1 on this.
Not that I care about the points, I'm just curious about his/her opinion about it
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...work on 4 consecutive private projects than one single project assigned to me by my employer...
AND spend some time on CP and The Chive....
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011 ----- Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach ----- Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo! ----- Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I used to view The Chive almost every day. I prefer being too busy to care.
Hogan
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I don't like to jump every few minutes between things (as I have sometimes to do), because it makes it quite difficult to concentrate on something.
But speaking about big projects... it can be bit boring and dangerous as well. I mean dangerous because sometimes big projects have very specific things. If you have only a reduced bunch of things to work with/on and the time you need to do it is very long, there is a risk you start forgetting other things that not being used.
I think the best is to have one thing to focus on, but changing that thing every few weeks.
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If project have your dependency then have to work on multiple projects. Sometimes we do not have choice...
Thanks
-Amit Gajjar (MinterProject)
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I've been working on a rather big project for over a year now... I wouldn't mind a change of view.
I can work on multiple projects at the same time. Although I don't want to hear stuff like "that project should've been finished last week!" because it's not going to happen when I have to focus on more than one...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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