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I am in the office (manager has problems with telecommute) by 6:30am. Get most of my stuff that requires office presence done by 10:30. By then everyone is in and its endless meeting or mentoring of others or social B.S. As for ideas or solutions to a particular problems that came come to me at all hours (even in dreams) I keep a small voice recorder handy.

When prediction serves as polemic, it nearly always fails. Our prefrontal lobes can probe the future only when they aren’t leashed by dogma. The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. David Brin

Buddha Dave

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Good to know I'm not the only one.

-Gatsby

I honestly thought it would be 9PM - 12AM. 9 AM - 12 PM for me is email, admin, coffee, fighting fires, phone calls, managing and helping everyone else be productive. Once 3PM comes along I'm back in the groove and just getting in the zone.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Now that I fully understand - Laugh | :laugh:

Except I a quit that job – and need another - Laugh | :laugh:

INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra

I mean, I don't have a "most productive time of day". Ideas just hit me at whatever time they chose to, and the speed at which development is moving really depends on what kind of thing i am doing at the moment, how interested I am in it, etc.

A strange question really, this one. I can't possibly imagine how a certain time of day may be more productive to you, unless you have one of them jobs in which you simply sit there and do a very, VERY similar kind of work every day, but then in that case, you shouldn't have that kind of job anyway.

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For me, I'm admit I can't very productive at a specific time. Mostly about 1-4 PM. It's hard to concentrate at that time. At that time, I'm always want to take a nap. Also, I'm no morning person, so it's hard to concentrate early than 9 AM. But again, it's all depend on how important of my job can be. If there is a tight schedule, I can productive anytime. But not on daily routine.

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Michael Rawi

What are you read at ?

Im the same... I suck at mornings, mid arfternoon i just want to sleep... by late evening (6pm - 9pm) i am just starting to wake up and then i am alert and work fine.

On the other hand, I can work efectivly at any time if it is urgent enough (and i have had enough coffee Laugh | :laugh:

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I agree, and disagree Laugh | :laugh:

Ideas hit me too at anytime, although lately I have been finding that most of my "better" ideas seem to come while I am having a shower Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

but, and here is where I disagree, the actual implementation to completion of a project, as opposed to hacking out the latest ideas I have had, I do find that I am more productive at certain times of the day. Afternoons are lazy, and early mornings are when I sleep, so I find that the most productive times for getting the grind work done, is in the mornings, 9AM-12PM, and evenings after 6PM.

If I have something really cool and new I am working on, the time of day means nothing, but for doing the 20th entry screen for the new system a client wants done, time of day is very important. It's the difference between getting work done, and just staring at the screen Laugh | :laugh:

I'm glad I'm not the only one! Poke tongue | ;-P

Option	Votes	%
6AM - 9AM	380	19.30
9AM - 12PM	789	40.07
12PM - 3PM	260	13.20
3PM - 6PM	445	22.60
6PM - 9PM	359	18.23
9PM - 12AM	464	23.57
12AM - 3AM	271	13.76
3AM - 6AM	104	5.28
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