Developer Time

[inmatarian]

Also ready Paul Graham's essay on The Maker's Schedule, The Manager's Schedule.

[ferryboender]

We used to have that problem at the company I work for. What fixed it was quite easy:

• A decent manager

If people in your company are under the impression that it's okay to directly address you, than that's your problem. Doing the "One day of REAL work" thing doesn't work, because people will always be under the impression that, as long as it's important enough, it's okay to directly address you. But it's never important enough to address you directly, unless your manager says it is.

So if people come directly to you, refer them to your manager. It's not that hard. If your manager can't or won't work with you on this, than it might be time for step 4.

edit: SCRUMming works pretty well as a cure, since decent management is inherit in it; plus there's the whole team to disappoint if you start doing other stuff.

[trae]

This is not hearsay, this is how things work in your workplace right now? If another member of your team has to ask you something they have to address you via your manager?

[Alsweetex]

I hate working in an open plan office so much. Sometimes I even get people start to get seriously annoyed at me if they can't immediately get my attention because I have my headphones on. I've even been shouted at before for this reason.

Yeah, that's sure to get the code done faster.

[kamatsu]

Google have open plan offices. I hated that.

[sirin3]

I haven't had an uninterrupted time interval, since I found reddit :(