Jason Yip explores the value of reducing work in process and reducing context switching costs to optimize throughput. By designing processes to work on projects serially instead of in parallel we reduce context switching, and other costs, of multitasking.
Related: Multi-Tasking: Why Projects Take so Long – The Importance of Making Problems Visible – One piece flow (continuous flow) – Kanban
Great video.
Love the "stop-the-line" mentality that is really similar to manufacturing…don't continue production until we get this problem figured out first. "Go play X-Box!"