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What do you do after the project finished?

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  • C Chris Austin

    I hand the documentation over to my code monkeys maintenance team and go looking for another project that I'd find interesting. In between the new project and the closed one I'd do a postmortem and figure out what I did poorly and where I was "the man".

    My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

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    CooperWu
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    Chris Austin wrote:

    In between the new project and the closed one I'd do a postmortem and figure out what I did poorly and where I was "the man".

    It's a good habit, it will improve us program skills.

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    • M Michael Sync

      WuJunyin wrote:

      Which document should we write?

      You should write down something special that you have done in your project... For example, Let's say your customer was asking "A". but you don't wanna do or you don't know how to do or whatever reason... you left "A" and you did "B" but looks like "A". So,you should note about this .. because if you need to modify something in your code, you won't know why you did like that... :)

      Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) If you want to thank me for my help, please vote my message by clicking one of numbers beside "Rate this message". Why vote? Plz Read it here. Thank you. :)

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      We are writing 'class specification' or 'class description' for our project. include method description, variables description and so on....

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      • C CooperWu

        After the project finished -> means coding and test were completed. What do you do if no task assign to you? Write coding document? or Write refactoring ? or others... -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are drawing flow diagram for important event, like button click... Does this helpful in the future?

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        Weiye Chen
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        Put in some easter eggs. :)

        Weiye Chen A hermit trying to learn hibernation...

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          Put in some easter eggs. :)

          Weiye Chen A hermit trying to learn hibernation...

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          CooperWu
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          Sorry, I don't know what you meaning~~~ :)

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          • C CooperWu

            Yeah, What do you do after beer? ;P

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            Luis Alonso Ramos
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            Have another beer?

            Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico

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            • C CooperWu

              After the project finished -> means coding and test were completed. What do you do if no task assign to you? Write coding document? or Write refactoring ? or others... -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are drawing flow diagram for important event, like button click... Does this helpful in the future?

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              cp9876
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              Figure out how you can sell it to someone else (without upsetting the first client).


              Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

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                Have another beer?

                Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico

                My Blog!

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                CooperWu
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                again and again? :laugh::laugh::laugh:

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                • C CooperWu

                  After the project finished -> means coding and test were completed. What do you do if no task assign to you? Write coding document? or Write refactoring ? or others... -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are drawing flow diagram for important event, like button click... Does this helpful in the future?

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                  Sathesh Sakthivel
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                  Just take a break ie., leave for one week and enjoy as much as you want? And return to office for the next project.

                  SSK.

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                  • C cp9876

                    Figure out how you can sell it to someone else (without upsetting the first client).


                    Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

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                    CooperWu
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                    Oh, we can not do it. because the project requirement and the system architecture not be done by us. these wrote by our clients.

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                    • C CooperWu

                      After the project finished -> means coding and test were completed. What do you do if no task assign to you? Write coding document? or Write refactoring ? or others... -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are drawing flow diagram for important event, like button click... Does this helpful in the future?

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                      Mohammed Derbashi
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                      have a vacation :zzz:

                      Thank you, M. Derbashi

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                      • C CooperWu

                        Oh, we can not do it. because the project requirement and the system architecture not be done by us. these wrote by our clients.

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                        cp9876
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                        There is probably some value in what you did that may be as a minimum packaged for reuse in your later work, but it never hurts to try to see if you have something that could be sold to others. What part of the job was hardest, could you create something that would make the job easier? This may help you in future work, or it may start you on the path of developing a product. Developing products is one way to decouple your income from working hours. If you get it right you make money while you sleep, if you get it wrong you work for next to nothing. Have a drink, take a break if you need it, and start work on developing your business.


                        Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

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                        • C CooperWu

                          We are writing 'class specification' or 'class description' for our project. include method description, variables description and so on....

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                          Michael Sync
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                          For us, we used to write the detailed comments in code. After that, we just generate the documentation by using nDoc or other documentation.. so... that such a thing we don't need to do after the project is done.

                          Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) If you want to thank me for my help, please vote my message by clicking one of numbers beside "Rate this message". Why vote? Plz Read it here. Thank you. :)

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                          • M Michael Sync

                            For us, we used to write the detailed comments in code. After that, we just generate the documentation by using nDoc or other documentation.. so... that such a thing we don't need to do after the project is done.

                            Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) If you want to thank me for my help, please vote my message by clicking one of numbers beside "Rate this message". Why vote? Plz Read it here. Thank you. :)

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                            CooperWu
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                            At the very start, I suggest our team to write some comment in code. Then use NDoc or VS.NET IDE to generate some HTML files. But, we have a problem to do this. The code is write for Japanese clients, so we cannot write Chinese comment in it. unfortunately, our English are poor too. at last, we give up write comments in code... because of the language reason. :^)

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                              There is probably some value in what you did that may be as a minimum packaged for reuse in your later work, but it never hurts to try to see if you have something that could be sold to others. What part of the job was hardest, could you create something that would make the job easier? This may help you in future work, or it may start you on the path of developing a product. Developing products is one way to decouple your income from working hours. If you get it right you make money while you sleep, if you get it wrong you work for next to nothing. Have a drink, take a break if you need it, and start work on developing your business.


                              Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

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                              CooperWu
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                              It's a good idea for your advise. But we have not ability to make it to products. ;P

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                              • S Sathesh Sakthivel

                                Just take a break ie., leave for one week and enjoy as much as you want? And return to office for the next project.

                                SSK.

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                                CooperWu
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                                No break, No bonus. Our company no those boon....;P

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                                • M Mohammed Derbashi

                                  have a vacation :zzz:

                                  Thank you, M. Derbashi

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                                  CooperWu
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                                  Yeah, we can do it only at weekend. because the weekend belongs to us, but company.

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                                  • M Mohammed Derbashi

                                    have a vacation :zzz:

                                    Thank you, M. Derbashi

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                                    The GrinMan
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                                    Update your resume - once the project is built, the initial developer is no longer needed. The GrinMan

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                                    • C CooperWu

                                      After the project finished -> means coding and test were completed. What do you do if no task assign to you? Write coding document? or Write refactoring ? or others... -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are drawing flow diagram for important event, like button click... Does this helpful in the future?

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                                      Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                                      Visit http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp[^]. (For lazing about and discussing anything that takes your fancy)

                                      Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                                      • T The GrinMan

                                        Update your resume - once the project is built, the initial developer is no longer needed. The GrinMan

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                                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                                        GrinMan wrote:

                                        the initial developer is no longer needed

                                        Very much. At least in Indian environments, the following facts apply to a greater extent: 1) The other competitive project teams envy very much and hence there might be a Cold War situation. 2) The management team would try to see if you can be 'de-moted' since otherwise your 'market' value would grow and you need to be paid high. Hence I feel that after a few project spectacular shows, the resume be refurbished and floated across, at least in this part of the world.

                                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                                        • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                                          Visit http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp[^]. (For lazing about and discussing anything that takes your fancy)

                                          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                                          CooperWu
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                                          I am doing ...:rolleyes:

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