One thing I have not be able to get thru to my wife of 11 years... When a person is coding, there's a couple thousand things floating around in their mind. Language structure, personal & system API's, style rules (you asm guys probably don't see to much of this... :-), variable scope and values, etc... Humans don't have a stack. Interruptions cost me dearly. I can do test execution in a high interrupt environment, but not test development.


So I understand Richard's premise about phone calls, but I could never submit to his micro management. It's a form of management laziness, and poor substitute for measurement of progress and results. But hey... Some people think yelling has a place in business too. I've been known to get up and leave meetings when people start yelling. They can come talk to me when they're calm and unemotional.