Shiqi’s careless whisper

can you really learn the element of software management in 7 weeks?

And I am talking about a part time program. I kinda doubt it, so I dedicate this post to keep track about what happened during each of our 4 tasks and hopefully this will give me a better sense when I come back and review what I learned from this class.

The starting point and the first task went though OK, it took me a while to analysis Google’s business characterization but with the guide line I found that I can easily nailed it down. I am feeling fine after task 1

But good feelings only last until I hit the second one. In task 2 we are doing “Market Analysis and Business Strategy” and first sub task is to create the outline of our report, the report is 4-5 pages long and the well, the evaluation checklist takes about 2 pages long and contains tons of questions that we are supposed to answer in our report/outline, the worst thing is, trying to fit them all into the outline will make the outline itself become more than 3 pages long, but it is very hard to tell which one goes to report only because almost all of the questions are regarding content coverage. Besides, writing something against a question list is a huge downer for me, I found myself often struggles with balancing in keeping my creativity and making sure I follow those stupid rules. (Maybe business hates creativity, I don’t know) The schedule is also something I don’t 100% get: you pretty much have to conduct your SWOT/PEST and business strategy analysis to make sure your outline has appropriate coverage, and they have to happen in the first week of the two week period, and then you get almost equal time left to put more details, which you should already find when you conduct your analysis(otherwise where did you draw your conclusion from?) so basically by spliting this task this way we totally force the effort to be unevenly distributed. I have high respect to whoever made the schedule this way, but I guess I just don’t see it making sense in terms of effort distribution. Why can’t we put SWOT/PEST as task in week1 and business strategy analysis in week2 to distribute the effort to make the effort distributed more evenly?  I am kinda disappointed about this class after this week.

TBC on task 2 week2, task 3 and task 4.