Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Flow

I wrote code for years before moving into operations, support, test, management, quality, and finally consulting. I recall well those days when I would close the door to my office and write code for hours at a time. Fairly often I would have an experience of looking at the clock prior to sitting down at my computer (way before the days of laptops), starting to write code in earnest, and then looking up at the clock and noting that hours had passed—and I was totally unaware of it. It always seemed like just a short period of time that I had been writing code, and yet 4, 5, even 6 hours had actually passed. This is the idea of flow. Basically, flow means that you get so focused on something (in a “groove” as it were) that you completely lose ...