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Let the bosses fight and decide which job I should do first.
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I prefer multipe projects but I cant be the primary on both and on one I need to have smaller roles.
MJ
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I prefer to work on one task at a time, but I can work different projects task by task. What I absolutely don't like is switching often and in the middle of unfinished tasks. It requires a lot of time to dive back into WIP.
Also: The better everything is documented / commented the easier it is to switch between projects. When I was young I was very chaotic (like many programmers), meanwhile I try to keep my stuff tidy, it helps a lot to come back to a project, read some code and comments and immediately understand what it was about or where to continue ("// TODO:" comments!)
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...I generally get nowhere.
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what about multiple virgins waiting for you in heaven?
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modified 15 Nov '12 - 2:32.
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They needs to be an multi tasker who works in more than one project at a time.
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starts ten project and never finish one!
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Too much of the same thing is not good for health. Working on multiple projects at same time may help keep your brain rejuvenated and sometimes even reduce stress levels. But the only condition is that you must enjoy your job.
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Phanindra261 wrote: Too much of the same thing is not good for health.
yea but too little time for anything is much worse and most probably your brain body soul would not be rejuvenated.
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you said yourself "too little time for anything". In real time these days finding time for our loved ones itself is a big project. Gone are the times when we could comfortably work on one thing at a time. If you want "time for anything" you must learn to handle multiple things at the same time.
Charles Darwin Theory Of Evolution is applicable to humans also.
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Phanindra261 wrote: Gone are the times when we could comfortably work on one thing at a time.
try smarter, perhaps you are not successful enough (or is it the ego? sorry for guys who work for you)
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You are correct! I will use the word "smarter"....
you said yourself "too little time for anything". In real time these days finding time for our loved ones itself is a big project. Gone are the times when we could comfortably work on one thing at a time. If you want "time for anything" you must be smarter and learn to handle multiple things at the same time.
Charles Darwin Theory Of Evolution is applicable to humans also.
Oh and I forgot ... there is an enjoying the job part. If you are not able to do multiple projects at the same time most probably you are not enjoying your job....?
modified 15 Nov '12 - 1:35.
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yes you love your job right? i suppose this is why "gone are the days people can live and work comfortably"
it's all just ego isn't it? get a grip kid, Be Profitable, Get Paid.
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10 yrs down the line I will be.....
And yes I do love my job,....because I don't do something I don't like...and I do like doing a lot of it.
But thank you for your thoughts....I can't discuss about ego because it'd be like moving out of topic.
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To be successful, you need to be paid, and paid well. Especially here in Asia. You should aim to either establish your own firm (assume you actually have an innovative product), or work for a hedge fund (They pay you)[^]
If you just work for whoever, you'd end up wasting all your time/energy/youth churning out code and when you wake up at 35 years old, balding and gut hanging out, you'd all of a sudden it isn't very cool at all you spent your life code for some sh*t head (who probably tells you you're a hero all the while) and not being able to afford a mortgage, buy a car, feed your parents, or have enough money to get married.
Asia is different kid, play smart. Avoid shallow pockets who don't pay (At all cost)
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Usually I have a large project on the go but I'm also called onto smaller more immediate jobs such as writing new utilities for our production team; on the one hand it's a pain to be pulled off the main project when I'm in a good flow, but at the same time it's sometimes nice to have a little break.
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Sure, I prefer a single project at a time. Focus on more project it impact quality work and delivery.
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more work doesn't equal more pay, especially in IT - and most definitely with Asian firms
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Well said
Thanks and Regards,
RK_PRABAKAR
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(aka Result Oriented, or simply "A lot of result oriented")
Nothing new under the sun
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I prefer multiple project.
The reason is that most of the time I code a little, and then need input from other people for whatever reason (database access, business question or whatever)
I don't want to waste my time (and thus my customer money), by taking action with incomplete input.
So when that's the case I switch on another project at hand.
That's also why my customer are happy : I'm don't cost them any money when I'm waiting :p
On my case I'm happy because I have no down time.
Nicolas,
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Nobody really cares much about what I like.
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Well, they asked, didn't they?
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If I run into a snag on a main project, it is always good to be able to be able to go to another project that is low priority. I have also sort of liked having multiple responsibilities because the other responsibilities give me a break/change.
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100% agree with you on this. Unfortunately, I just checked, I had 8 open VS projects today, all of which I worked on, today (well, one I just code reviewed).
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That gets painful. Hard enough remember what you did on 1 project, let alone 8
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I will be honest, it has been pretty close to hell today. To make matters worse, my boss went ahead and fixed a small problem, without grabbing latest code first, then checked it in. Merge hell! 
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and deployed to prod?!
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His is in QA but going to roll out to prod as it is an emergency release. I'm working on the merge now to get out to QA (my code was an additional feature and performance improvements)
modified 14 Nov '12 - 10:10.
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i just sneaked out a change yesterday as well.
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Had a friend (he was promoted to more a management role) who had to watch as another programmer slaughtered his application because he was not a good programmer. Very frustrating.
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I like jumping to other project and doing some work on them for a month or two and then jumping back to main project. The thing is that when I jump back to other projects my attention is completely there, and for that time I'm off the project I was first working until my work there is done.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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I don't mind working on multiple projects, but I can't stand when one immediately becomes a priority over the others. This happens way too often every day. Even when I set aside blocks of time to be undisturbed, it doesn't happen.
It would just be nice to focus for a few hours on a single task.
Brad
If you think you can, you will.
If you think you can't, you won't.
Either way, you're right.
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2 projects at 50/50 are fine. A 25% or smaller share isn't bad in the planning, wrap up, or post-deployment bugfix stages (assuming you did a good job coding anyway), or any time you're basically on-call to provide support as needed. However, it is maddening when trying to do main development since your choices are either breaking it into very small time slices and not being able to do a major feature in one session or having your time slices spread far enough apart that you lose a significant amount of time to trying to reload your mental context from the last time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Working on multiple projects at once it depend on human working capability. But I think Working on multiple projects at once it good practice.
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you can work for an asian firms - they love guys who can work on number of projects same time for half the wage.
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but then you probably already know don't you!
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I know this things, bcz I am a Bangladeshi.
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I'm a man, I'm genetically programmed for single-tasking - according to my wife.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Bull. You can surf through dozens of TV channels, read the newspaper, eat breakfast and browse the internet all at the same time, can't you?
(Disclaimer: no responsibility accepted on what happens after you tell the wife this)
BTW I have no preference in these lean times, and any work is better than no work.
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Indivara wrote: any work is better than no work.
Regards.
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I prefer to work on a single project at a time, but I have to work on multiple projects at once.
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This is more the standard process.
Personally, I prefer to work on a single project at a time. For those that say they get bored & like to switch between projects, I find that a project has several different aspects that need work so I can switch between different tasks within the same project to stop myself from getting stuck.
Prefer 1, usually need to work on many.
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Working on a single project at a time is not very productive, nor involving.
But "multiple projects" is too generic: I think that the ideal situation is having exactly 2 projects to work on, so that when you get bored of one or you get stuck on it, you can always switch to the other. Working on more than 2 projects is too dispersive, though.
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Aiscrim wrote: when you get bored of one or you get stuck on it, you can always switch to the other.
I switch between tasks based on their delivery requirements, not because I'm bored or encounter an impediment.
/ravi
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Well, of course I was supposing that both projects had the due date set to "yesterday", as it always happens in normal development schedules.
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