This is the title of an article today in the Wall Street Journal. The subhead is:
Brain Is Wired to Focus on Just One Thing; Which Tasks Are Easier to Combine
It’s all about how we humans are built to focus. Multi-tasking is, well, inhuman. A few monkeys pretend, but we lose all effectiveness.
See this. I am a “member” so it may not work for you. I can email it to you, if you want. (But ‘you’ can’t be too many people.)
Scrum tries hard to help the team focus. And not be interrupted.
I usually like cocktail parties anyway. Now more.