Whoa ! All Work and N :( Play !

Work, Work and Work.. all work and no play... on a tremendous high, life has set some high expectations and tough deliverables(they are always tough!). A project with no clear requirements getting into User Acceptance Testing (a strategy to get requirements nailed down AT LEAST before the disaster), completely messed up work-out schedule; rapidly growing books,articles to read. Wow what a roller- coaster ride it had been.

I

1- Clear Direction: Nailed down on going ahead with the Functional requirements and completely put aside the RGE(that was the initial bible), different stakeholders had different versions of the bible!

2. Focused energies on the 20% of the system that drove the rest of the 100%!!

3.Kept pushing for near-perfectionism- pushed the QA to raise issues for the seemingly insignificant issues; pushed the Dev team to the limits of stretching the bouquet of skills.

4. Motivation Refuel- Got the team to party to celebrate small,weekly milestones, the moment I saw the signs of hard work,stress

The project is ready to deliver!

Life is getting back to control, I managed the energies of the team rather than mere time, working during the early hours and investing in some extra-hours over few saturdays(I don't think it is too bad to work on saturdays, it is all about priorities honey!), we kept raising the bars(of course the defects,Isn't it good to have them early?, fail-fast strategy)