25. Understanding Multitasking and the Cost of Delay on Estimation
Sometimes, you don’t have short projects, so projects get backed up, and your managers ask you to work on several things at once. Or, the managers can’t decide which project is #1. Somehow, you end up doing several things “at once.” This is the multitasking problem, and this is the cost of delay.
You know me, I hate multitasking. The costs are significant. But those are just the costs of multitasking on the work you are doing now. That has nothing to do with the cost of delay to your projects.
In Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, (ROTPM), I have this nice picture of what happens when you try to multitask between two projects.
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