Last Minute
When you are going to implement a project, any kind of project, you have to do an estimation of the time that you need to finish it.
No matters how you are accurate, even if you overestimate the total time, there will be always the last minute.
I meet the “last minute” in almost all the projects that I managed for my Job: Information Technology Project.
Usually you are in the last minute when you are very close to the deadline of the project (the day before… it’s enough close, but can be closer) and something goes wrong:
- A Bug in the software that you are going to delivery
- A Bug in an infrastructure component that you are using …
- A misunderstanding of the requirements.
- …
This is the evidence of one, and perhaps the most famous Murphy’s Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
This kind of situation happened, and you cannot do anything to avoid them, it’s very difficult maintain the calm: you can feel the scary of the failure on your neck.
If you are working within a team, this is the moment where you can measure the team cohesion, these situation are usually solved by a single member of the team… but not alone. The success of a project depends on the team and its cohesion… to archive a success you have to work hard to build the “Dream Team”.
