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Idea creep

June 18th, 2007
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When you are working on a “big idea” distractions seem to pop up all the time.  A lot of times they seem like “easy wins” or “weekend projects” but they always end up becoming a time suck.  Within an application this is often called scope creep and almost every project I’ve ever been involved in has had it in one form or another, so this time I’ve been extra careful to keep my eye on the prize.  But guess what!?  Just wasted  2 days working on a quick and easy facebook app idea only to find out that their platform dosen’t support iframes in the profile page (doh).

It was only a few hours of time but not I’m feeling frustrated and unmotivated to get back to work on the “big idea”.

This wasn’t scope creep but idea creep.  We have a lot of ideas and sometimes it’s hard to keep them out, this one slipped through the crack.

my bad.

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    I hear you on this one.

    I often find myself unintentionally being overloaded with too many projects because other ideas pop up and I want to take advantage of them. At one point I was doing game design for 2 teams while working designing a website and developing a social app. My problem with that is not that I don't have enough time- which I don't- but that I lose the intensity of my focus.
 
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