Simple Multitasking = 30% Late

Posted on September 10, 2007 by LJ

Recent reading over at LiveDev turned up another article about how multitasking can affect overall timing. The article referenced, over at Theory of Constraints blog, shows how one resource multitasking can really gum up the whole works for downstream resources. It’s worth a read.

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