Earlier, I mentioned that the done-centric culture of a truly Agile organization is largely about focus.
Focus has a lot of positive benefits and I'm not going to get into all of them.
Here's a short list, that is good enough for this blog entry.
- It highlights impediments by forcing them to be seen as part of the workflow - if you can't switch focus, it's harder to "look away" from a problem.
- It makes large batch sizes more obvious.
- It minimizes knowledge loss in the course of a task.
- It discourages work on less important tasks when more important ones are done.
There's probably an entire series of blog entries about the importance of focus.
