The Context Switching Catastrophe: How to Save Your Engineering Team from Burnout
<p>It was the perfect storm. One of our lead engineers, Alex, had finally settled into coding a complex new feature that customers had eagerly awaited for months. Thirty minutes into mapping out the frontend architecture, a bug report came in from the customer support team. Every time they exported reports, all numerical data showed up blank. Alex dutifully stopped his work to dive into debugging. After an hour of tracing the code, his concentration was broken again — the CEO wanted to talk about prototyping screens for a new AI-powered app he promised investors by the end of Q3.</p>
<p>Overwhelmed and frustrated, Alex ended his day no closer to starting the customer-critical feature than when he began.</p>
<p>This scenario plagues engineering teams daily. The constant context switching between new features, technical debt, bugs, and other priorities destroys productivity. For companies relying on software innovation to stay competitive, it creates a growing sinkhole swallowing engineering bandwidth and morale.</p>
<p>Uncontrolled multitasking and interruption within engineering teams breed frustration and slow progress to a crawl. There’s a solution, though — proven structures to align engineers around focused, specialized teams insulated from the daily churn of competing priorities.</p>
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