Agile Company: Is Multitasking Evil?

The Agile Company Series

Workshop: Is Multitasking Evil?

Why do you have to multitask? How does it impact performance?

February 27, 2014, Afternoon and Early Evening

The Agile Company is a community of practitioners and thinkers looking for better ways to run business. Join us for an informal exchange among peers to explore … and solve … the challenges of running a modern business.

Peter Stevens, Entrepreneur and Scrum Trainer

A recurring theme in my courses is that multitasking is hugely detrimental to personal, team & organizational performance. How detrimental? Well, one of the core messages from my Scrum courses is “Multitasking is evil!” But, you say, multitasking is unavoidable and necessary. It’s not possible to eliminate multitasking. What can I do?

A phase-driven or “waterfall” does in fact require systematic multitasking. In this interactive workshop, we will explore why this is the case, what the side effects are, and show how Scrum is a different architecture for developing software. We’ll do a simple simulation to illustrate the impact of multitasking. Finally, we will create some strategies for reducing multitasking in your actual situation.

Peter Stevens is an Entrepreneur and Certified Scrum Trainer. As the former, he is leading the creation of echobravo, the system to help businesses of all sizes solve the social media problem. As a CST, he teaches teams and organization to solve problems — the right problems — quickly and effectively. He initiated the Scrum Breakfast, which became the swissICT Lean-Agile-Scrum working group and co-founded the Stoos Movement to catalyze a lasting change in management.

Location: Training Room Zürich West, Hardturmstrasse 181, Zürich
Keywords:  Agile, Scrum, Enterprise, Management, Performance, Multitasking, Focus, Waterfall, Apéro

This event will be held in English unless we have a consensus to speak German.

Program

Date: February 27, 2014

Admission is free! Registration is required.

Program
15:00 Door Open / Welcome & Coffee
15:30 Peter Stevens – Is Multitasking Evil? Why the waterfall condemns us to chronic multitasking.
17:00 Apéro / Networking

Registration

Location / Directions

For directions see Training Room Zurich West.