Project Management

“One must know the issue, the resources/skills available, and be able to tie the two together in order to appropriately estimate a project.”

-Michael J.H. Taggart

Features

• Review Project Management throughout industries and what best practices we can take away.

The issue:

I have been giving time estimates for work that I have been given before, but I rarely get the time right. I am sick and tired of being “behind schedule” on the dates that I have set for projects. So I set out on a personal mission to better myself and understand why I am getting it so wrong.

• Problem 1: I have been coding since 2020, and so I am fairly wet behind the ears.
• Problem 2: At my day job I cover several web products, and have several hats. I technically work as a full-stack developer. This tends to be several different types of projects.
• Problem 3: I stink at project estimation. I am usually too optimistic.

Let’s take the most recent project as a consideration:

I am migrating several custom made node.js applications (talks to MongoDB) and functions and converting them to a new Strapi API. Should be easy. I think I am almost there, just some simple connections, and then I am suddenly over a week passed my last estimate. (I was off for 2 of those days because of the holidays, but :shrug:, still a week passed my estimate.)

Soooo… Here I am. I am writing about project management, but I don’t have time to research it all tonight. It is pretty late, and just wanted to write something down for now. I’ll get back to this, because I really do want to know what I can do different. I know it will positively improve my life so I won’t be so down on myself on these situations.