Longest project you ever made in your life

[tommygrayson]

Ok guys....


Want to hear it.....

Mine's 1 year. Yours?

[Foxer]

18 months - fully paid for.

[tommygrayson]

18 months - fully paid for.

What's the project about?

Mine's an HR, DTR and Payroll rolled all in one.

[Foxer]

Workflow in the manufacturing sector.

Was probably a 2 or 3 person effort but they were too tight so they paid me for 18 months. At project completion they wanted to reskill me with Unix and Perl so we mutually agreed to go our own ways. They head hunted me 2 years later to get them out of the poo when they tried to replace my system.

God bless undocumented code!

[tommygrayson]

Workflow in the manufacturing sector.

Was probably a 2 or 3 person effort but they were too tight so they paid me for 18 months. At project completion they wanted to reskill me with Unix and Perl so we mutually agreed to go our own ways. They head hunted me 2 years later to get them out of the poo when they tried to replace my system.

God bless undocumented code!

Hahahaha!!!!! The fools. Most people think they can replace any existing system that had been done with a lot of effort very easily.

[wossname]

6 years still ongoing.

[crptcblade]

Project was started 2-3 years before I was hired, I worked on it for another 5 years, and now almost 2 years after I quit I got word that they found someone to actually buy the product.

So what's that, like 18 years?

[kfcSmitty]

about 16 months now, but that is only because my clients are 'too busy' to get back to me regarding a lot of information i need.

[space_monkey]

About six months from start to finish.

[szlamany]

5 years - specs kept changing - ugly moving target. I was starting to lose my shirt big time!

It went from no project manager to a consultant - that they then fired - that they then re-hired as an employee! And then fired him again!

That led to the creation of a new position - CIO! He came from a different industry and then they decided that a new vendor could come along and start from scratch and give them what "they wanted!". That was supposed to take 18 months to implement. 12 months into it now and they keep pushing back the go-live for phase 1!

I just sit back and watch in amazement

[oceanebelle]

was always 3 months from start to finish... on my 1st week of the 3rd month now... should be done soon... soon and I can spam again w00t.

[mendhak]

I'm currently working on a project to create a Van Stokum cylinder. The only problem is it's going to take forever.

[tommygrayson]

Project was started 2-3 years before I was hired, I worked on it for another 5 years, and now almost 2 years after I quit I got word that they found someone to actually buy the product.

So what's that, like 18 years?

What's the project about?

[crptcblade]

Corporate loan management. Initial development probably should have taken maybe 2-3 years tops, but it was one of the most horribly managed projects that I have ever been a part of.

[mendhak]

Corporate loan management. Initial development probably should have taken maybe 2-3 years tops, but it was one of the most horribly managed projects that I have ever been a part of.

You must be feeling worthless. If you're not, you should.

[crptcblade]

Not anymore.

I knew the project was crap, but I still got paid. That's all I cared about at the time.

[tommygrayson]

Thanks for your input guys.

I am currently formulating numerous excuses in case any form of manager asks why my project takes too long to finish.

It seems that:

1. Any project starting from scratch takes more than a year to finish.
2. There are more fools in the company that mismanages the project. (I am also surprised at this one.)

If there are any more excuses you can advise me please do so post here.

I also welcome insane excuses.

[NotLKH]

I miht have missed it.
What is your PJ?

Never mind:

What's the project about?

Mine's an HR, DTR and Payroll rolled all in one.

So:

HR?
DTR??

Please 'splain

-Tanks
-Lou

[tommygrayson]

I miht have missed it.
What is your PJ?

Never mind:



So:

HR?
DTR??

Please 'splain

-Tanks
-Lou

HR (Human Resources) System
1.) The system records all employees information. This will act as a mother information for other future systems like centralized employee name, employee number, years of experience and all sorts of information regarding an individual who works in the company.
DTR (Daily Time Record) System
1.) The system records all employees attendances in the database and processes all those who are absent, late, and undertime. Usually DTR is required by payroll to process total number of hours worked so that their salary will be in accordance to the number of days they have worked.

Hope this explains everything.