Right, the ultimate context switch is constant pinging and meetings. There’s very little reason to have engineers be in 5+ meetings a day. But at a lot of orgs, they are, and that’s an extreme context switch cost 5x a day. It’s different if it’s a purely technical meeting about the problem you’re solving right now, but they’re typically not.
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Most organizations are not doing Agile correctly.
Everywhere I've worked claims to be doing Agile, but none of them have ever done anything to avoid context switching or limiting work in progress
if its like anything i've experienced in multiple places, they are just implementing scrum and calling it a day.
meanwhile the business runs on quarterly projects that have to be done by a certain marketing date, so its usually scrum + waterfall over and over
Right, the ultimate context switch is constant pinging and meetings. There’s very little reason to have engineers be in 5+ meetings a day. But at a lot of orgs, they are, and that’s an extreme context switch cost 5x a day. It’s different if it’s a purely technical meeting about the problem you’re solving right now, but they’re typically not.