CIO Insights: Efficiency or economising?

The end of 'Move fast and break things'?

Tom Allen
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CIO Insights: Efficiency or economising?

"Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don’t do it. If you think this doesn’t apply to you, you’re wrong."

So writes Jeff Sutherland, who coined the term 'scrum', in Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. It's a book that Google's Sundar Pichai could stand to read - preferably befor...

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