Development: proper timing

Introduction

Many lonely programmers often spend a lot of time sitting "head on" at work and by the end of the day the brain completely refuses to work, especially under constant load. Those who work for their own pleasure, with no deadlines, are less affected by this, but if the work goes to order with a specific development time, then a similar problem is almost inevitable. Also many stresses and the wrong day regimen are associated with this problem.

Solution to the problem

On the basis of the full amount of work you need to make a specific development plan, distributing everything into items and sub-items, and it is desirable to make a small table. An important condition: the plan must be distributed clearly before the complete completion of work; otherwise, at the last stages, the completion of development can be delayed.

Further, on the basis of the end of the development period, it is necessary to distribute the plan evenly loading the entire development period. This results in specific work boundaries for a specific unit of time chosen by you. A person psychologically can correctly estimate the amount of work and can make plans for the day without going in cycles in work.
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The usefulness of the method

The method allows you to properly distribute the load per unit of time. In this way, we can evaluate the work for the period of time and know when the work for today is finished. The load is evenly distributed for a period and the person does not feel discomfort and lack of productivity for the day. It turns out an organized schedule.

During the preparation of the plan, it is important to properly distribute the workload by items, as many developers suffer from “lazy attacks” and to avoid this you need to distribute a large task into smaller items, thus the work will be more productive.

Additionally

Also during the work, I advise you to use one technique called Pomodoro Technique / Tomato technique. The main advantages of this technique:

1. The choice of priorities. You will be able to properly evaluate the work and predict the time to solve the problem.

2. Increases attention, perception, concentration on a specific task.

3. The technique can be used as a kind of timing - at the end of the day you have information for analyzing the work done per unit of time.

4. After solving a job, you have the opportunity to assess your performance and, in the next term, improve, speed up or change the way you work.

Every 25 minutes the timer stops and you have to move away from the computer for 5-20 minutes and reflect a little on the problem and the work done. Man psychologically will try to do as much as possible in the 25 minutes.

For the use of technology at the computer mainly use the program-timers.
Here are a few of them:

Timers for Mac OS X:
Focus Booster - www.focusboosterapp.com
Tomatoist - tomatoi.st/azhx
TimeBoxed - www.macmation.com

Windows Timers:
Keep Focused - keepfocused.codeplex.com
MaToMaTo - www.vivasoftware.it/PomodoroTimer/MaToMaTo
Pomodoro Windows 7 Gadget - sharovatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/pomodoro-windows-7-gadget
Tomighty - www.tomighty.org (I use it myself)

A more detailed description of all the timers for different operating systems on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pomodoro_technique_software_timers