What can a swing and Al Pacino teach you about Software Development?

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The image above shows how most software projects are executed or done. The swing is something we can related to and is simple to understand, however it is easy to get wrong, if we don’t communicate well.

Doesn’t matter if a portal, software for a customer or in house solution, most of the time, it is how it goes. The main reason? Nobody in the team is on same page and by team is everybody, including the customers. And for that to occur, dialogue, trust, research, time, respect and patience is needed (missing any, ends up like the swing story board).

Like the film industry, a great movie will de the result of all the people involve being on sync. The difference between a great project and a bad project is the team. And as Al Pacino in “Any Given Sunday” said:

Either we heal, NOW as a team… or we will die, as individuals