[teampractices] Article: Improving Corporate Cognitive Performance in IT Organisations

[Max Binder]

I liked this (generally, not accusatory-ly):

>
>    - Turning brain power into commercially valuable software is the goal
>    of most software organisations, yet few leaders consider the performance of
>    the brain as a key component in performance improvement.
>
>
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I found this (fairly long) article on InfoQ recently, and thought it was
> worth sharing:
>
> https://www.infoq.com/articles/improve-cognitive-performance
>
> They studied published research to find factors that positively or
> negatively impacted cognition. They also define what type(s) of cognition
> they were looking at.
>
> They list some "key takeaways" at the top of the article, but a few other
> points that jump out at me are:
>
>    - Caffeine improves cognition
>    - Music (at least of some types) hampers cognition
>    - Open offices have a huge negative effect on cognition (which is
>    probably not a surprise to most of us)
>
> My favorite quote (which is also one of their key takeaways):
>
> *Software engineers should consider themselves 'cognitive athletes' with
> an attitude of doing everything possible to make themselves as fit as
> possible for their roles.*
>
> Kevin Smith
> Engineering Program Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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