Hi all,
I'm doing my FYP using csharp and MS Outlook to develope a plugin app.
My question isn't about programming as such, Its more about project
managment.
Does anybody have a good URL that could inform me on how to appraoch a
software development project?
There are two of us on the project, we are not computer science
students but Arts students who took IT as a joint degree along with
psychology.
I think the pure BSc IT class get lecturers in software project
development, we didn't!
This is not a grip though, its just my current context.
Any help would be welcome!!
Thanks in advance,
Kevin.
Dec 15 '07
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From: Lew [mailto:le*@lews canon.com]
"Ian Semmel" wrote
4. A project takes as long as it takes.
Liz wrote:
hard to sell that anymore; I just love it when I see these budgets
that
say "1264 hrs programming time" ... lol ... not 1263? how can they
tell?
And not a very useful saying. "A project takes as long as it takes"
trivially, but it takes longer if you don't manage it properly, and in
the
industry at large never gets there at all more than half the time.
There's no
excuse for that.
I'm not implying that projects should be open-ended, but more along the
lines that after applying all your experience and designing the project,
you come up with an estimate of X, only to be told by some marketing
person that this isn't satisfactory and that the product has been promised
in X / 2. They often won't accept that regardless of what might have been
promised, it is going to take X.
"Ian Semmel" <an****@rocketc omp.com.auwrote in message
news:678C28FDB5 9543749435986E0 FA4AE73@DIMITY. ..
I'm not implying that projects should be open-ended, but more along the
lines that after applying all your experience and designing the project,
you come up with an estimate of X, only to be told by some marketing
person that this isn't satisfactory and that the product has been promised
in X / 2. They often won't accept that regardless of what might have been
promised, it is going to take X.
no, they don't .... and they get what they get ... give me a fraction of
the time needed, you get a fraction of the product desired ... all the S&M
team wants is "good enough" anyway; these are the same folks who were
seeking "team players who are passionate about their work" when they hired
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