For the past few years, I have worked on projects ranging from web-based applications to J2ME games. Most of the projects was mainly developed in-house, which means everyone is under the same roof and each team member is within a stone throw away. While most projects get to see the light of the day, there are also a few that never was delivered to the end users.
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I am also involved in some online collaborations with team members from other parts of the world. And online collaborations seems to be one of the tougher nut to crack, since it can be quite difficult to work with people you’ve never really met face to face and also there’s no clear line of communication going on among the project members. It’s very much like playing an RPG game, each one waiting for their turns and eventually everyone stops moving and paid attention to something else, and the project comes to a complete halt.
Mark Forster has some very insightful tips on how to get almost any projects up and running.
The basic idea is simplicity itself. You can keep any project moving powerfully forward if you take some action on it first thing every day.
Let’s analyse that a bit further. There are three elements:
1) Take some action
2) First thing
3) Every day
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