Perspective
I’ve been a bit grumpy of late because I feel my effort hasn’t really been getting me anywhere. Really this is just due to a lack of perspective about the overall development task, and where I am in it.
Yesterday I found a cunning way to give myself that perspective… look at the project plan I wrote months ago!!
I feel much better now. It turns out I have actually achieved some stuff in the past month or two.
My contracting job has also converted me from the traditional GANTT-chart project methodology to the new-fangled buzzword-compliant agile-whatever-that-means Scrum methodology. (I may take the mickey, but I do actually think it’s quite good.) So I’ve also gone through and converted it to a Scrum “product backlog”. This might also mean I look at my project plan more frequently than once every two months :-)
I might write more about Scrum some day.