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Add You - Project Management - It's Just A Button
There are many organizations that still subscribe to the belief that fear is the best motivator for its employees and that it creates a more robust and competitive entity in the market place.As an executive coach and psychiatrist for over 20 years I wish to d
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then
Nowadays, with the rapid progress of high technology, almost nothing is hard to do. Everything is easy, even more, things are done instantly. People get less care about the quality, it seems like it's not important anymore. The word good is replaced with instant. Th
Besides the fact that this developer kept taking the demo off track and wasting everyone's time, his feedback, when accepted, had a huge impact on the project schedule.
"It's just a button" was his answer to every objection based on the project schedule. This guy always managed to convince Product Management that he could do it in 5 minutes. I'm sure he could add a button to a UI in 5 minutes, but this button had a lot of repercussion.
For one, this button needed an action attached behind it, which didn't yet exist. Furthermore, adding a button would mean updating the SRS, user documentation, and test cases. Finally, it had impact on other applications that were affected by the action attached to this button. Not only did we now need to modify these other applications, we needed to write an upgrade script for our existing customers who were migrating from an earlier release to this new and improved version of our software.
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then
The commonly held view that the customer comes first is worth a close look. Think about the last time you received less than satisfactory customer service. What caused it? Probably an employee! Either directly, bad manners and a "don't care" attitude, or by not addr
"It's just a button" was his answer to every objection based on the project schedule. This guy always managed to convince Product Management that he could do it in 5 minutes. I'm sure he could add a button to a UI in 5 minutes, but this button had a lot of repercussion.
For one, this button needed an action attached behind it, which didn't yet exist. Furthermore, adding a button would mean updating the SRS, user documentation, and test cases. Finally, it had impact on other applications that were affected by the action attached to this button. Not only did we now need to modify these other applications, we needed to write an upgrade script for our existing customers who were migrating from an earlier release to this new and improved version of our software.
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then
Today everyone knows at least one person who has lost their job to down-sizing, right-sizing, cut-backs, production reduction or a mean, vicious “bogus leader” who could care less about your family, your life or your existence at the company. This may sound a bit o
For one, this button needed an action attached behind it, which didn't yet exist. Furthermore, adding a button would mean updating the SRS, user documentation, and test cases. Finally, it had impact on other applications that were affected by the action attached to this button. Not only did we now need to modify these other applications, we needed to write an upgrade script for our existing customers who were migrating from an earlier release to this new and improved version of our software.
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then
You dash into the office 20 minutes late, you’ve split coffee down your shirt, your clothes are crumpled and you haven’t shaved nor brushed your teeth. You mumble an awkward apology before thrusting yourself into a chair in front of your potential employer. It is l
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then
Wallace Flint was the first person to suggest an automated checkout system in 1932. But the history of modern barcode begun only in 1948, when Bernard Silver, a graduate student of Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, asked his friend Norman Woodland to d
To make a long story short, his 5 minute button lead on average to a 4 day effort.
If you're still at the Definition stage of your process, then you should at least consider the value behind this button, and whether or not it's worth the effort. If you're approaching the end of the Construction phase or entered the Verification phase, don't! Make it clear that gold-plating is not acceptable and that under no circumstance will you risk your deadlines for it.
Don't confuse the scenario where a developer who likes to hear his/her own voice constantly proposes gold-plating features with that of a lead customer who discovers a show stopper that must be rectified. The first is a classic mistake that you must control, and the second is strictly a fact of dealing with customers - one that can be reduced in frequency by introducing best practices such as Rapid Prototyping or JAD sessions!
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