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| expand_sales_tax_fields_project.docx | Doc/Text | 1/24/2018 | This is the origin planning doc for the sales tax expansion project. It was used initially and then somehow left and abandoned. Put up on this element of time for a reference. There are some notes on the main element of time that talk about some of the lessons learned from this. Live and learn. | |
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Back doing more planning. I did record a couple of notes about what I had learned with some of the old project management stuff. See below for a copy and paste note section... ///////// direct copy from a different page of notes: part way through the day on 1/24/18 i decided to pull out the newest project planning into a word doc. this file was getting too big. while i was in the same local folder, i found a 7 page document that i had started back in july of 2017 on the same topic... i don't know what happened, but somehow we went from trying to document things into a flurry of coding, and starting to work on the project, then after some major time had gone by, i was the only developer and we saw we needed some help, we had to pull in some other developers... we then spent tons of money and had them help for almost 2 months... we did make quite a bit of progress, but in the end, the project fell back on me to finish up... it made me kinda sick to see an un-used 7 page doc that may never have been opened and/or used. we all (all of the develoers) just wanted to jump in and start fixing things vs seeing and sticking to a plan. i think that is very interesting. right after i finish this little note, i'm going back in and rereading that 7 page doc. i don't even know what is there and i wrote it... - see the expand_sales_tax_fields_project.docx back from july 2017. (see attached) after reading the above page (actual word doc), i found the first part very good... it was almost a virtual check list... as the page got deeper, it ended up branching off into all kinds of different topics and possible connections that weren't really part of the main project. it may have been left due to it not being finished, not being focused enough, or any other possible causes... it had a good start, it just didn't get finished and got too loose. i'll bet that it got abandoned due to starting to code things... once we were coding things, we just flowed from one piece to the next. we actually had some good flow going until i got pulled off the project. once we came back to it (after quite a bit of time off)... we needed help and were starting to feel pressure, that forced us into a quick review period and then blasting right into the mix without a full plan. i think that is where things started to fall apart... who knows... maybe even before that, but i know things changed when we got other players involved and didn't have a full plan in place. note to self... make a plan, keep it focused, and then try to work the plan. i know that is ideal, but I really think it helps to have a good plan that is focused and simple. not too much extra and/or fluff. that is hard for me because i really like to dream sometimes. maybe keep the dreaming in a different place. it is all good. lessons learned. idea - if the project is big enough, maybe make a local folder and put things there in the local folder... that way we have a set place to put everything. |