Scheduling is important?
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Hi there What techniques do you use in order to fulfill your work(developer work). Let’s say you are working on a project which in final stage need to have an 1)running application 2)written report with description about application(algorithms description and other stuff useful for other developers which can continue your work). How do you manage this problem? Do you prefer to work on coding only and after the application is done to write the report, or is better to do them together? I’ve often read on developers forums about scheduling work. How are you doing that? Do you use any software? Which one? I’m using pen and paper :^) and now I’ve discovered MS outlook 2007 calendar, but I don’t know to use it at his full power(if is any – I didn’t see it yet) :(( Many thx
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Hi there What techniques do you use in order to fulfill your work(developer work). Let’s say you are working on a project which in final stage need to have an 1)running application 2)written report with description about application(algorithms description and other stuff useful for other developers which can continue your work). How do you manage this problem? Do you prefer to work on coding only and after the application is done to write the report, or is better to do them together? I’ve often read on developers forums about scheduling work. How are you doing that? Do you use any software? Which one? I’m using pen and paper :^) and now I’ve discovered MS outlook 2007 calendar, but I don’t know to use it at his full power(if is any – I didn’t see it yet) :(( Many thx
I have never had to write such a report, except when I left a company. I am careful when writing code to write comments to explain anything that I feel might be remotely unclear to me when I come back to change the code in a years time, and that's enough for me. I don't see the point of a schedule. We use issue and bug tracking, and I work through stuff, based on that. If testing occurs, and I get a ton of reports, I work through the easy stuff ASAP then I knuckle down for the 2-3 items remaining. But, I just work longer hours if need be, the fact is that most schedules are somewhat arbitrary, and making sure you do x tasks in y hours only works if you don't care how good a job you do. Each task takes a finite time to do well, and you need to add hours until the number of hours equals the deadline. If that's not possible, then revisit the deadline and make it realistic.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.