[rramadass]

>we would never schedule for more than 4 hours a day of coding per dev

Exactly right; And that is on a good day!

I like to read about how the "Great Scientists/Engineers/etc." approached their work and have come to the conclusion that they all avoided "busyness" like the plague. Instead they spent a lot of time thinking about What to do and How to do it before embarking on the job itself. Dijkstra famously did everything using Pen and Paper. I am trying to cultivate similar discipline given that the amount of distractions available on a Computer is orders of magnitude more now.