Managing Context Switching When You Have Multiple Clients

Managing Context Switching When You Have Multiple Clients

Author: Erik Dietrich January 17, 2024 Duration: 16:53
If you're working on significant projects in parallel for multiple clients, you might find yourself mentally "thrashing," or struggling with the context switching between the different projects. How do you handle that?   Links of the week: Get started with GitHub Actions Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up Playwright and GitHub Actions: Getting Started How to Call Batch Apex in Salesforce, the Quick and Easy Way Learn Regression testing

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