This is a poor reflection with respect to design and deal with personal projects, something very common in software developers.
Who, as a developer, once thought and tried not to make a super system, an application or a website to "conquer the world"? I dare say we all.
Fortunately, the enthusiasm and creating personal projects is very common in this world, and unfortunately, also very common to abandon it in half.

After a few years in this area, from personal experience and friends, I got a kind of conclusion and recipe, at least for me, I help increase the chances of completing a personal project.

Every project, however rudimentary it may be personal and is separated into stages, although not think that way. How so? I call on each block or step of the process that has different activities together, and therefore with enthusiasm and desire different.
For example: system definition stage, stage of research on how to implement something, stage design of the database development stage of each module, etc, etc.

I am convinced that each stage has a predefined lifetime and a pool of assigned forward unconsciously, by nature itself. When we change stage are renewed the desire, and will maintain the enthusiasm of the project.

The enthusiasm is directly linked to the term, that is, if we delay more than necessary at one stage, the associated forward and begin to fall dangerously sharp.
It is important to keep this, we need not extend a period in time, if necessary as we have to close it at the expense of whatever. Continue reading "Pool Win in Personal Projects" »