Before reading

In the last post we actually discussed about two different chapters, one that was actually not that good, and other one that actually shined in both of them there was actually no important story related things, some little problems that were solved at the end of the day and some learning that gives us something to discuss at the end of the post, so yeah, I am actually hopping to see something cool, extravagant and explosive, I dont know if because of the mood that I have or something else but lets star reading, lets go.

Chapter 15

In this chapter feels like everything is going down for Mr T, even he got rid of Dr M and all the things that wer actually making him struggle, there was actually one man that was triying to make it hard for our beloved hero, and this was Mr B, he of course wanted Mr T to get things done quicker, because all the projectsthat Mr was developing were costing tothe Morovian goverment 30 millions a year, so a lot of money was on the game and they could not be loafing around anymore.

This ment that Mr B wanted everyone to be working on the projects, it does not matter if overwork hours were needed, those projects must be ready by that deadline yes or yes, this could be a problem for the morovian workers because as we are goig to see later working more hours definitely does not means things are getting done quicker, just a spoiler for next posts.

And if that was not enough a new notice came, aparenlty the olimpic games are going to be hosted in another place, and can you imagine where? Exactly in Morovia, what a great time to add more work to Mr T, yeah because a new comunication tower needed to be builded to be able to control the amoun of aerial traffic that they are going to receive in the next months, of course because of the games, even tho it was not Mr T work because of course he did not signed for what he was the only one that could actually do it so lucky you Mr T, lucky you.

And you guys know what comes when more work is added? yeah pressure and pressure is actually a double-edged sword this because pressure is like a punishment and something really interesting about punishment is that actually small amounts of punishment can actually makes us understand and try to fix our mistakes, but if too much punishment is added we can actually break and get the total oposite from learning and things could go really bad, the same as pressure, a little pressure can put us to work, big amounts of pressure are actually not good for us and could makes us go nothing good at all. People under pressure dont think faster and of course does not work faster.

Chapter 16

I actually ended up including this chapter in the post because one post for this chapter only would be kinda short, and we want quality content no just content so lets include it here, this chapter is more like infomative than anything else, as we saw in the previous chapter a new airline tower something related project and of course saying NO is actually not an option to give, so it is actually time for our hero to set things up and start doing some real deal… wait something happened, aparently there is an angry manager in one of the projects that is scarying the developers soo it means that we are going to let the airline thing for later.

Apparently and after some research done in the book this angry manager got angry because the amount of stress that accumulated was bigger than his will, so as we discussed in the previous chapter, a little of stress can actually be good, a lot of stress is actually something that we do not want because there are some of the things that stress can do to people:

• Make people yell
• Make people turn red( make them furious)
• Makes people to humilliate people infront of others

And as we dicussed previously whan happens when some worker actually feels under apreciated? when someone who is working actually does not feels loved? well it not going to be as productive as before, thats why then things like this tend to happen it need to be solved as soon as possible, otherwise thing could get worse.

And at the end of the chapter they star talking about an SRS document, software requirement specifications document or something like this, it is a document where all the software functionalities buttons, capabilities, weaknesses and strenghts are described, what, how, and when does the software does something, it is basically like the before reading manual but it describes every single detail about the project, this document is really important because it shows other people, people who were not involved in the development of the project, it is important because this document should be able to explain the product to everyone no matter who they are.

My own experience

We all have been part of a project that seems like its not going to be finished but at the end we finish it and we are so f** proud because it was actually hard for us but we did it and we did it greatly, well if have been then you can remember what its like the days before the deadline of thay proyect, that stress acumulated can either be a fuel to us or a doom pill that goes inside us, the amount of stress is actually the same in everyone the difference is the capability to be able to control it, if you can control it then you are way ahead if not then you should be really carefull and try no to let things to get to that point. One advice that I give you and that you should try it is that if you are dealing with someone who looks angry then i recommend you to look the other way, first try to help, if you see that is not doing any good dont take it personal, when we are angry we do not say and think things that we normally do, so dont take it personal.

Finally, the document the book says about is actually really important, because when you develope something you are probably making something for people who are actually not expert in the field, so this means that we actually need to make a document so that everyone who wants to use our system is able to work correctly with the system and not get confused, by this we make this document in which every element of our system is described so is actually easy for everyone to understand your system is something not necesarry but I highly recomment you to do it.

This post Deadline

This was actually not bad at all, the chapters were a little short but were actually full of things of story, problems, learning and good avices, probably these kind of topics were already discussed back in the early days of the posts but the thing that actually reminds us of the importance of these topics is actually really good, I can easly say that this chapters were excatly what I expected, not too large and full of usefull things, they were important, short and usefull, so this means that this post deadline is a solid 8.5 I was happy after reading these chapters and happy after making this post.