Comments on: Project Design – General Systems Thinking Applied to the Project Context http://www.techdarkside.com/project-design-general-systems-thinking-applied-to-the-project-context Struggles of a Self-Taught Coder Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Allen Childress http://www.techdarkside.com/project-design-general-systems-thinking-applied-to-the-project-context/comment-page-1#comment-11021 Allen Childress Thu, 17 May 2007 21:00:21 +0000 http://www.techdarkside.com/?p=104#comment-11021 You should think about sticking a Nike add in your office... "Just do it." ;) Documented process is good for when you work in a CYA environment and/or when they want something they can hold in their hand at the end of every week. To my experience those two things always come in pairs. It builds trust when there wasn't trust to begin with (sometimes in oneself, sometimes in others). It also makes an excellent shield when any blame games break out. The masters I know don't think... they just do. But they did alot of thinkin' and documentin' before they became masters. ;) One of "The 5 Keys to Mastery" is practice practice practice. A project plan isn't needed nearly as much the 7th time you've done something as it was the first or second time. You should think about sticking a Nike add in your office…
“Just do it.” ;)

Documented process is good for when you work in a CYA environment and/or when they want something they can hold in their hand at the end of every week. To my experience those two things always come in pairs. It builds trust when there wasn’t trust to begin with (sometimes in oneself, sometimes in others). It also makes an excellent shield when any blame games break out.

The masters I know don’t think… they just do. But they did alot of thinkin’ and documentin’ before they became masters. ;)

One of “The 5 Keys to Mastery” is practice practice practice. A project plan isn’t needed nearly as much the 7th time you’ve done something as it was the first or second time.

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