What's your process?

Whenever I start development on a brand new website for a client, I reflect on the way I approach new projects. From the first scope discussion and requirements gathering to implementation and QA, I quickly realized that my process is possibly interesting.

Now I’m not talking about scrum or agile or waterfall here, but rather the individual work ethic put into web development. For me, it’s very much like how I studied in college. I would notoriously study for 15 minutes every few hours, seldom putting in maximum effort for an extended period. I would push this even further when I wrote essays, as I’d write a sentence or two every time I was near my computer and only worry about cohesiveness at the very last minute.

Apparently I continue with that approach even in my current work. I’m adapting a PHP AJAX framework for a client’s dictionary site and I can’t bring myself to implement more than one method every few hours. When I do sit down, the progress is real and the code flows without much pain (thank god!), which astonishingly makes the entire process work on some level.

That said, would forcing focus have any effect on my productivity? Somehow I doubt it.