Common Challenge

One of the basic challenges of ’starting-up’ is loosing momentum. In the beginning everything is easy, you have plenty of energy and bright future ahead. Unfortunately, soon the everyday pains come by and you have to simply go through them. Many of those are things you wanted to avoid by setting up your company: dealing with unwanted partners, unproductive paperwork, doing things that are simply not inspiring. This is where rhythm becomes so important. It’s essential to move on every day - even a smallest step. You also have to monitor yourself, whether you’re actually making any real progress everyday.

This is where good project management methodology helps. We looked at quite a few, while starting Dooyt, we also had some experience with waterfall methods. After lots of discussions (which involved rapid hand movement ) we chose SCRUM. I’m not going to cover it fully here, you can get plenty of information on Scrum Alliance website. SCRUM has three significant advantages over other methods. It’s simple - you set the goals, team takes them on and produces functionalities. It’s lightweight - you don’t need fancy software to implement it (in fact a whiteboard and a pen would be quite enough) - all we use is a spreadsheet with 3 tabs. It focuses on the rhythm - everyday every team members report in short words three things: 1. What she/he accomplished yesterday, 2. What tasks are planned for today, 3. Are there any possible obstacles in meeting goals.

Scrum has other advantages as well - reducing development time and increasing ROI to name just a couple, but those three are the most important, because they MAKE you and every other team member to keep the rhythm. And this is what makes things roll.

Dooyt is a simple project created out of passion for self development, self management, achievements and doing things together (hence ‘Common Challenge’ in the name of our blog). Dooyt is also a Common Challenge of three guys connected by a similiar vision: improving their (life and work) environment step by step with their projects. You will find more and more precise information about what Dooyt is and what it will become in the near future. But this is just a short ‘about’ note - more info will show up on our blog Stay tuned!

In the meantime we encourage everyone to sign up for the upcomming beta tests of our project at www.dooyt.com.

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