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Week 18

What should you do when a task you think should take a week takes a month? It’s a tough humbling pill to swallow but here it is.

I’ve had this Trello item on my board for a month now. A few times, it made its way to done, only to find its way back to todo. Why is this? Is it because I don’t know what I’m doing or maybe the task is too hard? The answer to both is yes and let me elaborate below.

• Do I know what I’m doing? In a general sense, yes, but for this project, no. Unfortunately, that is part of the process. In development, I’ve found myself in situations where I was in unfamiliar territory and the best way to get through it is to stumble through it once, figure out what could be better, and stumble through it again. In this case, I stumbled for a long painful month.
• Is the task too hard? Within the context of my background, and that I’m one person and this would have been better suited for a small experienced team, yes. This task is very deep into docker and I am not a docker expert. There are a lot of gotchas and testing takes forever, but if I waited to find a technical co-founder, this project would probably never have started.