Renaissance

Who are those who shop for products paraded in teleshopping and where do they come from?

I suspect any body with even a pea-nut sized brain will avoid buying any thing from them. I wonder how these guys make money? If any body felt cheated after buying product from them, law can help you.

I am thinking of few products which I can market on tele shopping. All I need a dude and a blonde and bunch of jokers. I have a gadget, that will increase the oxygen levels in the living room,  make your electric bulbs more luminous,prevent you from getting cancer from your mobile phones, make your television more eco friendly by cutting out harmful radiation, save your electricity bills, make you loose weight, make you more beautiful, make you more intelligent …

All I need is a VC to fund the advertising session.

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This post is to take a breather from hectic work in recent times….

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams, English humorist and science fiction novelist, perhaps
best known for his novel “The Hitch hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

You either get bogged down by the impending deadlines or you learn to enjoy them. Now that I am trying to enjoy the dooming deadline as it approaches me. I don’t know if it will make whooshing sound as it passes me.

As some one said, Schedules are made so that you can miss them. Making a schedule has been a mixed bag for me till now. Spot on if the I am in total control (read individual work) wayward for a group. There is more to programming.

Here I list the schedule made for WinWord at Microsoft for amusement purpose. The chart is adapted from Steve’s Rapid Development book.

Some lessons from WinWord schedule. Aggressive schedule prevented accurate planning. A 60-80 percentage was wishful thinking. The constant part of the schedule was firefighting.

This project experienced extremely high turnover. It had four development leads in 5 years, including two who quit the project because of schedule pressure and one who quit because of medical reason.

Because of schedule pressure, developers shortchanges their feature implementations, declaring them to be done even though they had low quality and in fact were incomplete. The result was that WinWord spent 12 months in Stabilization a period that had been expected to be take only 3 months!

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