Issue №1069 · resource · advanced

Your engineer is on three projects. What's the real cost?

In 200 words, model the cost of multi-tasking for a single contributor across three concurrent projects. Use a real cost (context-switch tax, missed deadlines, error rates) and the conversation you'd run to consolidate.

Writing prompt · 200 words · Graded across structure, depth, clarity, judgment


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principle

Multi-tasking is taxation; the more contexts a person owns, the less throughput each gets.