So I’m near­ing the end of my first major project. Well alright I’ve had many projects in my life, but this was my first pro­fes­sional project. I was … many things in my project: Lead Devel­oper, Lead Archi­tect, Psudo-​Business Ana­lyst, Nego­tia­tor, Trainer, Medi­a­tor, Whip-​cracker. The list goes on.

As the project is finally wind­ing down, I feel it pru­dent that I write down some of the nuggets of infor­ma­tion that I have gleaned from the experience.

Follow along and learn with me as I half-​rant life tips.

I went to college.

Shock­ing, I know. I did though, and on the lovely diploma that I earned and gently stuffed in a drawer some­where it says that I am both a com­puter pro­gram­mer and a sys­tems ana­lyst. What that means is not only am I (sup­pos­edly) com­pe­tent at coding solu­tions, I am also (appar­ently) com­pe­tent at look­ing at a system and fig­ur­ing out how things should work.

I always chuck­led in my Analy­sis classes. “Come on, this is all common sense!” I would pro­claim. I took what the teacher said for a grain of salt and left it at that.