{"id":2537,"date":"2017-10-23T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2017-09-24T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:07:40","slug":"the-play-project-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/10\/the-play-project-isnt-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Play (Project) Isn&#8217;t Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most important decision about a project may be when we say, &#8220;It is over.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watching college (semi- or mostly-professional) football this weekend. Several times today I see a 19 to 21-year old score a touchdown and in great glee make enough of the wrong motions to be flagged for excessive celebration or taunting or just plain getting on the referee&#8217;s nerves. This brings a major penalty &#8220;on the ensuing kickoff&#8221; as the referee explains in his personal microphone. Then I see a similar thing the next day with fully professional football players celebrating excessively and being penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps coaches should teach players something different about a touchdown play. The play isn&#8217;t over when you enter the end zone and the whistle blows. The play isn&#8217;t over until you gently hand the ball to the referee and, without any untoward motions, you run full speed to me and I discharge you to sit on the bench. Then, and only then, is the play over.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s move from plays to projects. A development project over when&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the system passes final testing<\/li>\n<li>the system passes user acceptance testing<\/li>\n<li>the system is installed at the user&#8217;s facility<\/li>\n<li>we hand the user the admin password<\/li>\n<li>all our people return from their at-long-last vacation<\/li>\n<li>the user signs the contract for the next project<\/li>\n<li>all our people start working on the next project<\/li>\n<li>I retire and live out my days in a rocking chair on the porch<\/li>\n<li>never<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How we declare &#8220;It is over&#8221; makes a great difference in what we do, when we do it, and how we do it. It is best to explain this ending to everyone at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The most important decision about a project may be when we say, &#8220;It is over.&#8221; Watching college (semi- or mostly-professional) football this weekend. Several times today I see a 19 to 21-year old score a touchdown and in great glee make enough of the wrong motions to be flagged for excessive celebration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,269,9],"tags":[225,270,132],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-decide","category-management","tag-clarity","tag-decide","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}