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Managing Context Switching

10 September 2018 by Robert Falkowitz 3 Comments

context switching

It has become a commonplace that the throughput of a team’s or individual’s work is sig­ni­fi­cant­ly slowed by context switching. If, instead of trying to multi-task and performing many different tasks within a given lapse of time, we finish a task before we start another, there will be much less context switching. Con­se­quent­ly, we would […]

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: context switching, cost of interruptions, flow, flow optimization

Multitasking, kanban & neuroscience

25 June 2017 by Robert Falkowitz 1 Comment

Schematic of cortical areas involved with pain processing and fMRI

A key assumption underpinning kanban is that context switching in work performed by people—the inevitable by-product of multitasking—leads to considerable waste. When individuals perform knowledge work, the impact of context switching resolves, in part, into the question of whether the human brain can multitask efficiently. Therefore, it is useful to understand the neurological basis for […]

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: cognition, context switching, monotasking, multitasking, neuroscience

Can we really not multi-task?

27 May 2014 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

Location of the dorsal striatum, where memory may be sent during multitasking

Can the human brain multi-task? The loss of efficiency and effectiveness due to context switching among various tasks is one of the underpinning tenets of why a Kanban approach helps organizations to reduce the lead times of their work. But is it really true that the human brain cannot multi-task?

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: Charles Ives, context switching, Igor Stravinsky, kanban, multi-tasking, WIP, work in progress

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