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Planning your programming project


Programming is one of the most complex tasks that exits. You may have gained hacking skills through your programming career, you may be a good code maintainer or a networking geek, but it takes more than your programming skills to put codes that do complex jobs together.
With my little programming knowledge, I wanted to make  a very simple mathematics game program with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Simple, I called it...
I started it  without planning, believe me, it took me a whole month to complete this little thing. Well, I thought the reason why that took so long was because I was a biginner, but when a client brought a job specification that is similar or more complex than the maths program, I did it in two weeks without working round the clock.
So, I realised what I was doing wrong, the specification my client brought was a detailed one and everything was on point and I also had a deadline which reminded me I wasn't joking.
To make use of the new skill I gained from my client, I made a record book off the computer system to help me comcentrate because whenever am on my computer, am either on visual studio, powershell or browsing the internet for the latest programming information.
In my record book, a project could be in one of four states: OPEN, SUSPENDED, COMPLETED and CLOSED.
The projects with the open status are the  active projects that are currently being worked on and they have time durations, in other words, deadlines.
I think the others speak for themselves.
By arranging my project tasks like this, I became responsible.
Today, I know when am into a real project, and when am working on a tutorial sample or testing to see how things work.
Am currently developing an android app that will help me in keeping these records because am not so much in love with book keeping with pen and I wont like it on my workstation either, so I'd have it on my handheld.
Please tell me what you think about how I manage my projects and teach me how to do it better in the comment section. Thank you very much for reading.
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