Tips and Tricks

In a technical context, Murphyʻs Law is highly relevant to the process of testing software and hardware solutions. Murphyʻs Law suggests that during the testing process, testing equipment will have faults, testers will fail to follow procedure, or run into other types of issues.

The software developer may think that it's possible to complete all tasks sooner than is realistic. However, it's usually on contrary.

Software myths are the beliefs that people consider are true but are not, regarding software and its development process. Learn the facts/realities behind our most commonly heard donation myths and misconceptions.

People who do things rightly are innovative and aggressive in their approach. While people who does right things are afraid of taking risks.

The second-system effect or second-system syndrome is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

"Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." (Fred Brooks -- The Mythical Man-Month)

Building one to throw away is too often used as an excuse for not doing the job properly. That means that you don't actually encounter enough of the issues in the process to learn enough to make it a good use of anyone's time. And doing it properly, only to throw it away, is even more wasteful.

The article below shows twenty of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make.

Running a business is demanding and, even with the best employees, you can't do it all. Seasonal workload shifts, new clients or projects, and unexpected problems can overtax your resources and place you at risk of not meeting expectations. Rather than miss deadlines or presenting less-than-perfect work, outsource specific tasks to keep your customers and clients happy.