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Soft­ware Project Phase 1.3: Dis­cussing the Soft­ware Design

Posted on: May 30th, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

Together with “draft­ing a design” this phase is the one where the soft­ware designer will be most inten­sively involved with his team­mates, most notably the client/end user and the soft­ware devel­oper. This involve­ment rep­re­sents itself iter­a­tively in both phases. The rea­son “dis­cussing the design” has it’s own phase is because it just has to happen […]

Software Project Phase 1.2: Drafting the Software Design

Posted on: May 2nd, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

About ten per­cent of all resources will be nec­es­sary to com­plete this phase, another ten to fif­teen per­cent to com­plete all the work flow­ing from the con­cept design.

Software Project Phase 1.1: Drafting the Project Plan

Posted on: April 18th, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

There’s a whole lot of hot air in for­mal doc­u­men­ta­tion, project plans being just one instance, where you have to read through gen­eral infor­ma­tion you prob­a­bly know already.

Software Project Milestone #1: Scope Determination

Posted on: March 21st, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

A project scope deter­mines where all of the project’s resources should focus their atten­tion. It has a tremen­dous effect on our project com­mu­ni­ca­tion, our pri­or­i­ti­za­tion, our test strat­egy, our devel­op­ing effort and so on.

Software Project Trait #7: Project Iterations

Posted on: March 3rd, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments
Cone of Uncertainty

In life there are a lot of things you won’t be able to con­trol, tak­ing action to be pre­pared for prob­lems com­ing your way is some­thing you CAN con­trol, cer­tainly dur­ing soft­ware projects.

Software Project Trait #6: Meetings

Posted on: February 14th, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

You don’t judge a char­ac­ter by his words but by his actions.

Software Project Trait #5: Scope

Posted on: January 22nd, 2009 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

For me work­ing with­out a scope is clos­ing your eyes to real­ity and offer­ing a weak prayer hop­ing every­thing will go as you would like it to be.

Software Project Trait #4: Milestones

Posted on: December 10th, 2008 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

I have no expe­ri­ence with projects who faired well with­out a scope, I have painful ones where a scope was absent with dis­as­trous results.

Software Project Trait #3: Roles

Posted on: November 27th, 2008 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

The heavy load of respon­si­bil­ity. Even when com­mon sense dic­tates that EVERYBODY makes mis­takes it’s never fun if it applies to you.

Software Project Trait #2: Generic Power

Posted on: October 25th, 2008 by Johan van Seijen No Comments

There’s a word for peo­ple who will bring flip-flops to the Alps want­ing to ski. the same word applies to peo­ple start­ing a project with­out any sense what to do or any knowl­edge about project phases.