1. Have a good team. 2. Have a clear idea. 3. Have a leader. 4. Have enough money. 5. Go for it. I'm serious though. Anything else is Project Management That Worked Once So Now I Am Milking It With This Book But No Guarantees It Will Work For You. So many of the best projects in IT have been a bunch of gifted guys with a singular vision going hell for leather. No process, no methodologies or management best practices. You can have all the Agile Prince2 Bullshitter methodologies you want but if the team and idea is horse meat you might make a burger but it will take some serious dead-horse beating to get there. On the other hand if it is horse meat you are working on; I like the Agile methodology. Use something like XPlanner for tasks, Bugzilla for bugs and do two week iterations. Do a round over coffee each morning on what each person is doing and keep reassesing what needs to be done. Try to avoid tangents and distractions, stick to the original plan. :) (Not bitter, cynical or tired at all. Just sick of "Do X, Y and Z and it will work" 'cause it doesn't.) 3. can be more than one person but they'd better be a brilliant pairing to avoid rifts.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
