[transitorykris]

Single Piece Flow fits with other Toyota ideas of how to get high quality work done. If something is frequently blocking the line, the solution is to put resources toward the bottleneck, not spin up more work in parallel.

[QuercusMax]

Building software isn't the same as building cars. Some ideas needs months or years to be realized, and there's only so fast you can realistically move.

[jurgenburgen]

When is multi-tasking ever productive? The biggest time sink is understanding the problem. I can’t understand two different problems at the same time.

[QuercusMax]

How did you manage to go to school and handle multiple subjects at the same time? It's exactly the same thing.

I'm not talking about multitasking on a moment by moment basis. I'm talking about over the course of a day or week you have multiple reponsibilities. That's the most normal thing ever.

For example, current projects I'm working on include:

  - Babysitting a weeks-long data migration
  - Designing a better storage system for some parts our data
  - Implementing data cleanup for customers who have offboarded
  - Code hygiene improvements across the codebase to support static analyzers
  - Planning committee work for upcoming hackathon

And that's just me - I'm not even a team lead. Other people on my team are working on different things within our team scope.

[specialist]

For troubleshooting, esp blockers, I totally agree.