{"id":1275,"date":"2009-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/10\/27\/1213\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:00:00","slug":"1213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/10\/27\/1213\/","title":{"rendered":"Capstone projects and time management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2009\/10\/26.html\">Capstone projects and time management<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] This might be a neat opportunity to use Scrum.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I\u2019ve been blaming students, here, for lacking the discipline to do term-length projects throughout the term, instead of procrastinating, but of course, the problem is endemic among non-students as well. It\u2019s taken me a while, but I finally learned that long-term deadlines (or no deadlines at all) just don\u2019t work with professional programmers, either: you need a schedule of regular, frequent deliverables to be productive over the long term.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky \u2013 Capstone projects and time management: &#8222;College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute. [\u2026] This might be a neat opportunity to use Scrum. [\u2026] I\u2019ve been blaming students, here, for lacking the discipline to do term-length projects throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}