Software Project 27 Indications to die _ work

Sometimes we suddenly discover that our project is doomed to death. Here are some signs that can help you find out the trend of project failure earlier. Change the project name three times within a few months. The project manager decided that it would be better to write a completely independent version of a country than to write a single international version. The requirements definition was published 4 months after the development work was launched. The new R&D director said on paper that the project would be completed 6 months ahead of schedule and would boast that it could be released directly to the customer without a version test. If you are a web developer, you open a compressed file from a client with an HTML document, and its Web site scripts need to be integrated into a Web application. But you open the HTML document and you get the Microsoft Word file, which is saved in HTML format. You find that the company has hired you as a consultant to mediate when two competition departments are arguing about which technology platform to use. The memo says that you need to develop a 64-bit application on a 16-bit platform. Developers do not understand spec documents, anyway, in the development work on the line; QA team don't know how to test, anyway, even if the test. About the project budget, if you find that more than half of the cost is spent on the PS model that the Web designer has created on the homepage-without considering whether the design is feasible or not. Or you notice that thousands of lines of content will be on the home page. Instead of focusing on bug fixes and performance enhancements, users or customers are asking to add new functionality. There is a list of best practices for software development, yet you are not using one. The project platform changed from Windows to MS-DOS. The project manager asks you to write a comparison of user requirements, but does not consult any potential users. Saving notes to a file instead of sending it to each other is an excuse for impending failure. Status reports are considered to be in defiance of orders. The new CIO replaces all the people here who know the organization's knowledge with the layman in his old club. This is a big project, code-named Iceberg. or in order to succeed successfully, after repeated research, the project named Phoenix. But it's really hard to convince myself that this project is really capable of Phoenix Nirvana-The Rebirth of a bath fire. Even the free version of the customer is deeply dissatisfied. PM for mission-critical projects (80% of corporate revenue) requires three months of contact to determine technology preferences, as well as a one-time training of four new developers. The deadline for this project was only three months. You realize that you must insist on management: After the first code freezes, you must review the interface definition and put it into version control. Replaced PM and moved the project from the city to another city.。 The QA team was told that "we are only assigned to three weeks of test time", or that "the date is dead and we must complete all functions by the deadline". The project manager decided to try the agile approach "to save time". The impact of mobile phones and the Internet: if you've hired a new PM at the Frankfurt and then went to a closed CIO meeting in the three-day area, then you'll definitely turn into a roaring Emperor: because she sent her old emails and you didn't reply (you don't really know), Also don't know her new project plan. Management decided to spend 1 million of dollars to build 20,000 yuan projects. The chief developer tells you that the full history of saving all database updates is an application requirement, but he has not had time to design a data model (in fact: not knowing how). So he decided to wait till later. Business leader/project investor falsely said, "As long as there is any creative support." "Look at the front: just cut off 20% of the employees and use the recycled hardware again, and then tell you this is the new hosting environment for the project."