Should Project Development Follow 1 + 7 or 7 + 1?

Recently, I spoke with my friends about the project development experience. I heard a point worth thinking about from my teammates. The leader arranged for his teammates to create a program module with a slight difficulty (note that it was a little), and the set time was 8 days. Then, on the seventh day, the leaders asked their teammates if they were about to finish the work on time. It is reported that the response sent by the teammates to the leaders almost left the leaders stunned. The reason why the teammates replied to the leadership did not do this module yet was that they spent seven days thinking and designing their ideas and architecture, it will take one day to complete tomorrow. The details of the fierce disputes between the leaders and teammates are omitted below. The result is that this is the end of the incident and can only be done according to the ideas of the teammates. The story above seems very common, but it reflects two different points of view. For teammates: 1. I am tired of having to complete the program ahead of schedule, and then a few days of nightmare changes and rework. 2. teammates paid more attention to the design and thinking before development. 3. I thoroughly understood the essence of "never cut firewood by mistake. since the construction period is 8 days, we can use the construction period without compromise, while ensuring the quantity and quality. For leaders: 1. The behavior of teammates is suspected of passive absenteeism. 2. If the original 8-day construction period is completed in 3 days, the next 5 days can be used for testing and improvement. Leaders think this is the best way. 3. In the case that the previous seven days were wrong or were at all wrong, the eighth day would be a failure. 4. I think that the IT industry, especially the development of application-level projects, is still some small and medium enterprises in China, "sharpening the knife by mistake ", leaders think that it is right to arrange 1 + 7 or 7 + 1 according to the actual situation. We often need to cut firewood and sharpen the knife. In fact, the above two sides are justified. It is true that the opinions of leaders from small and medium-sized enterprises are more secure. The opinions of teammates are more effective for special large enterprises or companies with high product maturity. 1 + 7 or 7 + 1 depends on the degree of enterprise, team, and productization. However, many netizens must write this article, what should I do if I want to write this article based on the actual situation. In order to meet the needs of some spray friends, in fact, from my personal immature point of view, I prefer the improved version of the leadership point of view. There are often too many examples of launching a project or product, while cutting firewood and sharpening (think about Microsoft). 7 + 1 as a project development team is not in line with the actual situation, the product team 1 + 7 is irresponsible. Therefore, based on the overall situation, it is likely that we need more than 7 1, instead of any 1 + 7, 2 + 5, or 3 + 4. that is to say, as a project manager, it is right to make a big time plan. However, as a project leader or developer, the project duration should be divided into a daily schedule (and there must be a correlation between the following results every day ): the second day is used to verify the results of the first day, the third day is used to verify the results of the first and second days, and the fourth day is used to verify the success of the second and third days (at this time, the results of the first day must be guaranteed without verification ). We can use a series of numbers to show the numbers of, 8, and 13. You will surely see this rule. This is a Fibonacci series. When we use this method to schedule an 8-day plan, we will ensure the consistency and robustness of the results produced by the daily plan. If a problem occurs in a link in the middle, it will not affect all links, only three adjacent links are affected. The last thing to note is that no matter whether 1 + 7 or 7 + 1 or the above series theory is invalid, the world is imperfect, perfection can only be "sought for", but cannot be forced. I hope this article will inspire and help project managers.