Step 0: know what you are building.

breaking tasks

The process of breaking tasks down.

• We need to research tasks to see how complex they are + how to break them down
• Research takes time! It should be its own task
• Over the process of research, the task becomes much simpler

estimating tasks

Requirement: tasks should always be estimated by the person doing the work.

• Task Estimation should be done each time! tasks shift
• Estimate only in powers of 2: 30 minutes, 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h, etc.
• If you never done something before, double the time than you estimate
• If you are teaching someone to do something, quadruple the time than you estimate
• Add buffer time (*1.5), especially if you think yourself as a procrastinator
  • Focus is draining! You need breaks. Take breaks.
  • Things will go wrong! Plan for it.

time iterating

• If anything is longer than 8 hours, that’s a good sign you need to break it down!
• Likely that you have to break things down

MVP

You probably don’t have time to build your feature list

The taxicab norm is a norm against a gridded system; it should follow the same properties of the norm, but not inner products.

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