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multi-tasking has been relegated to a convenient excuse to procrastinate.

You can make the most of your ability to focus by giving yourself a time limit in which to work on a task.

The shorter the time limit you set, the faster you’re likely to work.

he SEI's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), which was founded years ago and is currently the de facto standard, is no longer enough to properly evaluate software development capabilities and differentiate vendors.

Asserting that current methods for evaluating the capabilities of software vendors have become passe, the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Object Management Group (OMG) announced a partnership to sponsor the Consortium of IT Software Quality (CISQ), an industry-led initiative to address the measurement of critical IT application quality attributes.

“CISQ will enable us to benchmark the effectiveness of internal development, evaluate the quality of applications acquired from external sources, and predict the quality and cost of IT services to the business.”

the most efficient bioteams use one-way broadcasts and save two-way communications (which take more time) for when they’re really needed.

A bioteam is an organizational structure in which peers share power and responsibility and each member of the team is a both a leader and a follower. The structure is modeled after a fluid leadership structure found in nature.

Some scientists think the leadership rotation also encourages the birds to communicate more effectively.