Well, who would have guessed. Noise, stress and lack of time will not make people think faster or better, they just tend to find a quick and easy solution and move forward. If you don’t believe, just visit getFreshMinds, and he (she?) gives you some examples, including this study from the Ohio State University.
To be honest, I suspected that dumping hundreds of tasks with aggressively scheduled deadlines on someone does not make him think faster, actually, not even suspected, I experienced and saw it happen time to time.
Of course, all the quick and dirty solutions are temporary – it will have to hold until monday only -, and are corrected and replaced with a better, streamlined and lemon scented solution as soon as there is time, which means they stay in the product forever plus a day.
Time pressure and stress kills creativity and think-time. But we all know that software development is not about creativity.