I 100% understand you here. I currently work from home and still live with my family so the distractions in my work environment get pretty high sometimes even with a big LED sign that says WORKING DND. I commonly tend to block out all distractions with music or a TV series, I find that both of these tend to help me focus even though some how I can watch Netflix and work at the same time.
When it comes to something major in my house I wrote a program to hook up a button in my house to a raspberry pi that tells me I'm needed so my family abuses that a little bit.
If you use something on the lines of slack for communicating with the teams sometimes it can be a bit random, all my notifications are filtered through tags for when I'm needed otherwise I won't read that chat. In addition the place of work I'm at is actively using Teamspeak to communicate with each other. Although for some this may seem like a distraction I like being around my colleagues and talking with them. They sometimes even help me fix bugs.
If you tend to fidget a lot highly recommend something near by on your desk that is designed to help stop fidgeting (i use a fidget cube). Something I've commonly found is taking a little break from your work area if possible, a breathe of fresh air outside for 10 minutes has helped me improve productivity a lot as well as doing this when something annoying happens (ie maven not compiling!!).
Not really sure if this one has been scientifically proven (might of been) but having a tidy work space can help bump up productivity, its helped me before when I had about 10000 things cluttered around my office that would constantly distract me now all that's on there is my phone and keyboard, mice, mic etc.
Best of luck with your ongoing career!
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I 100% understand you here. I currently work from home and still live with my family so the distractions in my work environment get pretty high sometimes even with a big LED sign that says WORKING DND. I commonly tend to block out all distractions with music or a TV series, I find that both of these tend to help me focus even though some how I can watch Netflix and work at the same time.
When it comes to something major in my house I wrote a program to hook up a button in my house to a raspberry pi that tells me I'm needed so my family abuses that a little bit.
If you use something on the lines of slack for communicating with the teams sometimes it can be a bit random, all my notifications are filtered through tags for when I'm needed otherwise I won't read that chat. In addition the place of work I'm at is actively using Teamspeak to communicate with each other. Although for some this may seem like a distraction I like being around my colleagues and talking with them. They sometimes even help me fix bugs.
If you tend to fidget a lot highly recommend something near by on your desk that is designed to help stop fidgeting (i use a fidget cube). Something I've commonly found is taking a little break from your work area if possible, a breathe of fresh air outside for 10 minutes has helped me improve productivity a lot as well as doing this when something annoying happens (ie maven not compiling!!).
Not really sure if this one has been scientifically proven (might of been) but having a tidy work space can help bump up productivity, its helped me before when I had about 10000 things cluttered around my office that would constantly distract me now all that's on there is my phone and keyboard, mice, mic etc.
Best of luck with your ongoing career!