Your Project Success Depends on You!

How to Make Your Project Successful

Hello, dear friends! Today I want to tell you about working on projects.

Very often I hear how my colleagues describe some projects: “Oh, this project is awful! It has no future…” and so forth, but we are the ones to blame for that, all of us — from customer to developer. I want to talk about the path that a random project has to get through to become successful. Moreover, how ordinary developers like us can influence this process. And yes, we can!

Believe in yourself and in your project

Perhaps, everyone wants to hear about themselves: “Look, this is one of those who developed a super cool application, let’s get an autograph”. And there is no way you would want to hear: “Look, he is the reason why an excellent startup died”. I want to note that you have to believe in your project and treat it like a flower — water it, fertilize it, clean the dried-up leaves. If you think from the very beginning that your project will lose, it won’t do any good. Therefore you need to believe in yourself, in your project and, naturally, in the success of your project. All big companies started small. So why should we fail?

Check the code

Development is a very hard process! On the one hand, customer and Project Manager are pressuring you. They say: “Do it faster”! On the other hand, Team Lead and QA engineer say: “Do it with high-quality”. As a result, we receive bugs.

So how does it usually work? We write code then we estimate and it seems it should work. But… a bug comes up. Everything was good, but the customer just typed letters instead of numbers. And as a result, we receive an additional task, the dissatisfied customer, a “+” to fatigue and a “-” to karma. But we could avoid it right at the beginning. Therefore, try to always check various situations that can influence the app operation after the code changes were made. Found a problem? Solve it! It is better to delay the project release for half a day or even for a whole day than receive negative feedback from the customer.

Pay attention to details

Bugs can be hidden even in those places where you are absolutely confident that everything works 100% correctly. Therefore, it is better sometimes to spend some more time on checking the seemingly insignificant details. And it will definitely be returned many times over!

Study the requirement specification

Inattentively studied specification leads to the same problems as bugs. Pay enough attention to it!

Listen to an outside opinion

Try to listen to the opinion of your colleagues, the customer and, most importantly, — opinion of users about your work. It is very important! You can consider your code perfect but learn an outside opinion. It may be that what you consider perfect is actually a nightmare. When they say something is bad, you have two ways: you can ignore this and it surely won’t become better or, what is more proper, you can consider the criticism and correct all the shortcomings. Also remember: in our case any criticism is good!

Conclusion

Based on my personal experience I drew certain conclusions that anyone can take into consideration. Especially curious ones can test it all in practice and observe the effectiveness of such approach.

They say genius lies in simplicity! Just put it to practice!

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