Interestingly topical I shared this tweet [0] a day or two ago, repeated here to save you a click. Having switched from dev to CTO (which is like PM for every p

Interestingly topical I shared this tweet [0] a day or two ago, repeated here to save you a click. Having switched from dev to CTO (which is like PM for every product in your company, when you're small) it resonated with me. I personally think it's my job to "shield" the team from any/all external distractions. Dev productivity killers: * Notifications * Meetings * Emails * Interruptions Great managers block these. Bad managers cause them. Otherwise, I can only agree with the advice about structure, and discipline. I'm currently shopping around for something like https://github.com/danger/danger https://github.com/danger/danger to help me do my job better by policing Trello automatically - we've had great experiences using this for Capistrano's pull requests and I'd love to try this approach on Trello to police the rules we agreed to, but don't necessarily always follow. That'd probably save me double digit hours each week. [0]: https://twitter.com/_ericelliott/status/814082788378804224 https://twitter.com/_ericelliott/status/814082788378804224