Are You a Victim of Analysis Paralysis
Maybe it’s just the teams I’m helping but there seems to be a spate of analysis paralysis occurring in the IT world. Of course if I was a media outlet I be calling it an breakout, nay an epidemic! No! A pandemic!! Run for the hills people we might all be infected!!!
If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms then see the guidelines below:
- Analysis has taken more than a month already and shows no sign of ending anytime soon
- The documentation you’ve written has fine grained details in a few areas and is completely lacking any information at all in others (especially the tricky bits)
- Your analysis efforts are going around in circles
- No one can decide what the “right” approach is to some of the problems
Steps for curing this disease:
- Stop analysing!! Right now!
- Write some code based on what you have done.
- When that code is working, go and analyse/design a little bit more.
- Go back to point 2
Good luck with the cure and I hope your health improves!
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