Development
Been working on a project for a while and it got me thinking about some project flow. I use cakephp, yui, and jquery frameworks to help speed up development. In general this makes projects go quicker, at least initally.
Once the broad strokes is done, development slows. And this is to be excepted, when somebody builds a house, the framing goes really quick, but the finishing takes a long time.
When you get to the end that seems to be when the rush of feedback happens. Feedback from the people that you are building the application for that is. Sometimes the feedback is dumb, sometimes not, sometimes it means redo parts of the application. Lots of wisdom applies here from the “eat your own dogfood” thinking or the “build for yourself” people.
Success often is in the details though. Lately I have been thinking about just ignoring the details until close to the end, then really focus on them. So far, I think this is a good idea.