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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2019, 01:20:19 PM »
Every kind of writing is creative writing unless the words are producing themselves. Any division amounting to anything else is dishonest and a bit posh.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2019, 05:33:50 PM »
My wife got me a coffee mug the says "I put the PRO in procrastination"  In school a frequently lost a letter grade on papers because they were late and when they were not late I had done almost all the work at the last minute,  I once stayed awake for two days straight writing a term paper that was assigned at the start of the semester.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2019, 08:34:34 PM »
Often for work I need to put together a detailed document (usually about end user requirements) from the ground up, on the understanding that a development team is going to pick it up and use it as a basis for their work. That document could be anywhere from about 5 pages to 100 pages long, and I've got to bring together information from users and subject matter experts and google and my own analysis and so on. The problem is that when you are using waterfall methodology (where software development is a series of discrete steps rather than an ongoing interactive process) then if you procrastinate, you become the bottleneck and you are likely to hold up several teams of people, twiddling their thumbs and getting anxious.

Recognizing when one is procrastinating and kicking oneself up the butt is often required.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2019, 10:20:50 AM »
^And if that isn't creative writing, then I don't know what is.

Waterfall projects always need creative writing. There is no other way since the implementation proposals you start out with are pure fantasy. :P
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2019, 12:58:10 AM »
Waterfall is pants. Agile is much better but most companies are too half-baked in their adoption of Agile.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2019, 12:26:34 AM »
Oh yes, don't get me started on companies implementing agile. Been there, done that, so many times that it hurts.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2019, 07:49:25 AM »
The bank in the city where I had a job interview used agile. So many post-it notes...
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2019, 01:08:45 AM »
Guessing that was the scrum board.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2019, 05:37:18 AM »
Yeah I think it was. A bloody lot of paper anyway.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2019, 07:36:38 AM »
It's still the best way to do it.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #25 on: September 27, 2019, 11:48:44 AM »

I heard about this new thing called the internet. I might check it out, but probably not today.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2019, 02:32:47 AM »
The internet? Nah, that's never going to last.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2019, 11:24:44 AM »

People depending on other people?

You know how that is going to go, right?.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2020, 07:25:12 PM »
ONLY RETARDS AND BETAS HAVE THIS ISSUE.
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Re: Procrastination
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2020, 02:59:34 AM »

People depending on other people?

You know how that is going to go, right?.

Yeah. Lockdown.
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