| Sumario: | This article discusses on interruption in computer programming and its effect in productivity. It identifies and provides a description of the four factors that significantly affect an interruption's severity in terms of lost productivity including its time, the person causing it, its subject, and the type of work it disrupts. It discusses the interruption's length and its timing relative to other events. The shortest types of interruptions such as someone else's phone ringing or a noise in the hallway, really provide only momentary distractions. Moreover, it discusses several techniques to deal with interruptions and help avoid lost productivity.
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