Nice talk from Jason Fried at Ted.com about interrupting employees and breaking their creativity flow.

How many times have you reached the end of the day and you have asked yourself: “what did I do today?”.
Creating the right atmosphere that allow employees to work without interruptions ain’t easy.

“M&Ms Managers and Meetings, those are the real problems today…” Jason says.

In my opinion, it’s not just limited to that, software crashes, server hangs, also break your flow. This is specially important when you are trying to collect metrics data. Hey, let’s find how many times our editor crashes and how long it takes for it to load.

Loading time * Number of Crashes = Time Lost * Average Employees Salary = MONEY LOST.

Well… As my brother Oliver Henares says, “Life is not in an Excel file”. Add to that formula the fact that when your editor crashes your employee is breaking his/her creative flow, and it could take him/her hours to reach back that climax. That has an impact on the quality of the product which is not easy to represent in numbers.

Explaining something that can’t be shown in numbers, to people who think in numbers, isn’t an easy task. But it’s a philosophy that must be applied up to certain degree, to any creative development environment if you want to add that extra shiny touch to the final product.