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

[Kevin Smith]

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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