Thursday, April 27, 2017

Dream and project

I read an interesting article about dreams. From wiki - A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
Most of the IT projects are a result of a dream, an idea. A dream occur in the REM stage of the sleep and it lasts for a few seconds or minutes. During a dream, I can watch a full length colorful movie, Avatar, in a few seconds. In reality, Avtar took 10 years to make - http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/avatar-took-10-years-to-make-we-wonder-why-12779.html
As I mentioned any projects are a result of a dream. To materialize the dream, it takes considerable effort and time, else the dream turns into a failed project.
In my experiences, the team wants to execute the ideas as they see in their dreams and the best way to execute is "Agile".  I don’t complain agile is wrong, you need some discipline while doing agile projects, may be Disciplined Agile Development (big fan of it). However, the team usually forget the time and effort needed to plan the project - drafting a proper screen play, identify the right actors, actresses, technicians, the locations.......
I had worked in a project where the team wants to build a cool idea, so the business said (directed) - let’s use this vendor, let’s use this component and let’s integrate things together. End of the story, the vendor never understood what they are building, the internal team never analyzed what's the external provider offers and the one month project (integration of components) took three months and I don't know whether the project is materialized. I forgot to mention, there is another team who does UI :) and if you ask anyone what they are trying to achieve, you will get different opinions and the only person who knows the end goal is the "test lead" for that project.
So, bottom line is - dream takes a few seconds to minutes. A successful project needs right vision, right people, proper planning and a good team attitude :)

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