Writing it down

Write your plan down. You will hear this often from me. I speak from the painful experience of not writing it down. When you develop your plan, it’s foremost in your mind and perfectly clear. But in a few short weeks, you will be astonished to discover that it has gone absolutely hazy while your attention was on other pressing issues. Or you want to make some changes in the application a year from now and won’t remember exactly how the application was designed. Or you’re working with a partner to develop an application and you discover that your partner misunderstood your verbal explanation and developed functions for the application that don’t fit in your plan. You can avoid these types of problems by writing everything down.