Uninterrupted Time to Code

Posted by Mike on February 12, 2009

I just read a great article by Paul Graham called Holding a Program in One’s Head. In it, Graham, explores the value of programmers having large blocks of uninterrupted time to code. This seems like a simple way to improve the quality of code and the productivity of your developers.

He lists eight points that help programmers and makes the following observations:

• It’s striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident.
• Even more striking are the number of officially sanctioned projects that manage to do all eight things wrong.

It looks like there is plenty of room for managers (and programmers) to improve!