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Not just environment but the office culture is important to drive productivity. A minimum interruption, quite, relax dressing code and flex time work environment is ideal.
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Since I work on projects I want if I reach a difficult spot it's hard to stay motivated to finish, or find a solution. Sometimes!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I used to know experts[^] for that problem. I even got to do some motivating myself. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I've had dealing with those same types when I was younger and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
I guess I must have really pissed them off cause hey sent me to a jungle where people shot at me and liked me even less. Go figure!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: hey sent me to a jungle where people shot at me and liked me even less
Don't envy you for that. For historical reasons we did not participate in that kind of actions, but in 1991 I also had to pack and fly eastwards.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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The unending meetings with a 15 minute gap between them.
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^This. It should be one of the options listed there.
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What? You don't want 15 minutes between them 
We are given laptops where I work now, and it is not uncommon to see most people in the meeting ignoring the meeting while working on something else...
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Agreed! I'm currently scheduled for eight meetings that occur every week. One is an hour, the rest are 30 minutes. They're spread out over Tuesday and Wednesday, with the end result that those days my productivity is very low.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep, beginning with the morning stand-up.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Don't about the rest of you, but I hate 15 minutes stand-up every morning. I hated scrum with a passion.
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The only usefulness I've ever gotten from Agile is the formal breaking down of a project into smaller pieces. But then, every intelligent programmer did that without needing a formal methodology to require it. Otherwise Agile is nothing more than a tool of little benefit to programmers, but loved by project managers.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Based on my experience a project attempting agile software development will always be a mess if they have a project manager. I've also noticed that without a project manager you end up with those lazy developers only delivering half the project and not billing the client the full amount.
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Food coma is almost certain, and productivity is near zero for at least the next 1.5 hours.
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Hmmm...Tacos!
Do they at least violate some nuclear arms agreement or are they seasoned more like worn socks?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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They want something but, when you need them to give it a test drive of any sort, at any level, they extend an investment of 5-30 minutes into two weeks . . . after which, instead of doing their evaluation testing, they complain why no progress is being made.
As though they really don't care at all if it's ever done - only giving complaints when they get pressured to find out why things are held up.
P.S.: those who actually want their project and give feedback are always amazed how quickly things get done.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: They want something but, when you need them to give it a test drive of any sort, at any level, they extend an investment of 5-30 minutes into two weeks . . . after which, instead of doing their evaluation testing, they complain why no progress is being made.
Sometimes you are under pressure to get something out to the client "urgently" and then they sit on it. 
Kevin
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I really wanted to see many responses from many people. Not all people do use survey forum to enter text answer here.
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They could post a comment to the thread ?
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Only regular people use threads. Others are too lazy. They don't want to spend more time. Nowadays Internet mostly filled with Likes & Re-tweets .... discussions are very less comparing to those two.
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You've reinforced my point.
If they're that stupid and lazy, I don't want to hear from them.
Problem Solved!
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But half of good programmers are lazy one who write less code(KISS principle) for big projects. And not all lazy bums are stupid one.
That's why instant textbox needed next to 'Other' checkbox.
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In my old job it was definitely the boss, but I don't have anything to blame anymore.
At the moment I'm answering a Survey.
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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 helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Last week, monday morning, 5 minutes before our weekly online team meeting, my computer decided to restart itself to install the latest Windows update (Creator's version or some crap like that). No warning, no possibility to postpone or reschedule, nothing. Took the best part of an hour.
After that, my VPN connections didn't work. My internet didn't work. My hyper-v development machine didn't work. Took me almost two days to get everything working again!
Needless to say, I was not a happy camper! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 11-Dec-17 5:28am.
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