Hugo Estrada's House of Wonder

I noticed today that my statement about why I had to adopt best practices was very similar in emotional content to this famous moment in American cinema. Please hum the theme music as you read the text:

"As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never let a project become a death march again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never let a project become a death march again..."

That is what she said. Or something very similar, I don't recall correctly.

In any case, today I aggressively used redmine, the open source project management software, to track every activity that I am doing for my current project. This is part of my efforts not to let my current project become a death march.

Redmine was introduced to me by @GeoDAWG. He set it up for the project that I am using and for the another project. If we had actually kept using redmine in the other project, we would have saved ourselves from a lot of grief.

Strengthening a practice that already exists is low hanging fruit, so I am going to go for it.

What has changed right now is that now I have the strong motivation to keep it up to date. So that is what I did today: I updated tickets, wrote new tickets, and added more items and reorganized the wiki for the project.

Before I thought updating tickets was boring; now I think it is boring, but critical.