The GTD way to managing change
So as I was ranting about changes yesterday, what do you think came out of my meeting? (aside from feelings of absolute hunger and/or starvation because the meeting went through lunch and stretched out to four and a half hours)… Thats right, changes … 12 new feature requests and a slew of changes actually. Some of the changes are simple enough and fall just outside of the 2 minute rule to make, so they will be tasked. The application has been built to manage at least some degree of change that way, but some of the change requests will require a fair bit of thought to design and implement. This is definitely a great example of a ‘typical’ client and contract.
So, being all GTD stoked now … Craig and I get to exercise some of what we have been learning, so this isn’t really a rant parsee, its more of an observation of what to be grateful for … yea … yea … thats what i’ll call it 
But seriously, I am grateful for such a ‘typical’ opportunity to exercise the GTD principals I have been learning, and I’m sure that as long as Craig gets some sleep he will feel the same way too.
The collection process went well, Craig was on top of making sure that nothing got overlooked, I was sure to make relevant notes to the way the underlying system needs to be changed to support some of the new-ish functionality and although I will be coding a bit over the weekend, the majority of the notes can wait until Monday to get processed … I had to leave and get to another meeting immediately, so processing will have to wait (unless of coarse Craig updates the project site over the weekend). There is more then enough to get cleaned up before Monday that was already in the queue.
The sprint for this next iteration has been set to twice the length (two week sprint this time), that should provide more then enough time to get things back on track and done. I’m hoping that the organization strategies of the GTD principals will be the solution I’m looking for, time will tell the tale, and i’ll be sure to update as I go through it.
As always, comments, thoughts, feedback and flames are always welcome in the comments.
