Spence Green

Ideas. Travel. Software. Writing.

Spence Green is a graduate student in Computer Science at Stanford University. In addition to computers and software, his interests include travel, running, and diving. He speaks Arabic.

Archive for January 31st, 2008

How to Task Programmers

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The key to efficient programmer tasking involves telling programmers exactly what to do and then allowing them the space to do it. Practically, this means providing them with specific development tasks in a sequential order. If the project’s tasking model can achieve these mischievously difficult conditions, then programmers can enter the ‘Flow’, which is impossible with heavy context-switching.

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Written by Spence

January 31st, 2008 at 10:24 pm

Posted in Management