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Kicking the bad habits of Project Management

Marvin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:40:35 +0000

Excerpts from devshop creator Craig Fitzpatrick

Habit		Identified as
Estimating how long work takes	=>	Time estimation error
Pure dev time versus fighting fires	=>	Distraction rate
Premature speculation (we make a bunch of promises too early in the process when we don’t have enough information)	=>	Schedule confidence
Requirements and schedule falling out of sync.	=>	Tie requirements and designs to tasks / estimates
Not planning for change.	=>	Turn / Context switching

Source : http://blip.tv/file/1200648

Hug A Developer

Marvin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:19:51 +0000

Back to work

Marvin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:26:19 +0000

Over the next few days, I’ll be a “ning” developer , actually I started playing around the code about a month ago. But taken away off some other projects (feature integration) on PhpFox.

And as always, I started from the index.php going thru all the include files.


define('NF_APP_BASE',dirname(__FILE__));
require_once NF_APP_BASE . '/lib/index.php';
?>

Then look for anything that says “request” which is basically the point of interaction, how it receives it and handles it. After that, I look for the database object, its methods. Until the haunt kept on going.