Totally Agree

I read this in a forum I was reading a couple of months ago and just came across it again. Think he is generally spot on!!

A lot of people spend a lot more time organizing tasks rather then doing the task. Its like having a meeting in an office, Supposedly everyone thinks a meeting is the best way to get things done, by communicating and freely exchanging ideas, but in the end, it wastes time and inhibits work.

There are people in our office that spend days making large graphs for software, organizing how functions relate to each other, lisiting class methods and members, outlining the amount of time each task will take etc, etc, etc. The actual writing of the code only takes a few hours, but they waste days making up pretty charts and graphs impressing each other about how much paper their tasks take to print.

What really happens is that in the process of actually writing code, you deviate from the original spec because you develop new ideas in the process, or realize original concepts make no sense and develop new ones, and in the end, those pretty graphs don't mean anything because the end product is vastly different then what you thought you needed to do.

This looks like a managerial tool, something that looks like its a good idea, but ultimately wastes time and money, just like most managers. - by Topher