For a freelance web designer is very important to be able to work and pursue personal projects. This activity can serve both to improve the vocational own, experimenting with new methods of work that otherwise might not apply in everyday work, both in an attempt to create something which can give him a form of gain direct or indirect.
Many web designers are “geeks” (in a good way of term) and really wants to do, increasingly seeking to carve out the time between a job and the other to bring forward their own personal projects.
Personal projects I can be of any type, from the most simple and immediate things to those more complex and articulated: you go from simple realization of your site/blog to develop real web applications able to handle such a marketplace for the sale of digital products and services.
Comes in your mind a beautiful idea that might give you what you have always wanted: Fame and prosperity for the rest of your life. Wondering how come no one has yet and thought and goes off in a rage to begin the project before anyone can cheat you the idea.
And so without thinking twice, after a few hours are already there, all caught, that first down throw lines of code.
How many times you happened to start just so the work on a project that you wanted to accomplish and realize only after several months of hard work that, in fact, the project in question was not very feasible for those who had the resources available?
I do not mean a failure due to inefficiency or lack of validity of the project in question, characteristics that should be evaluated. What I mean is just the impossibility of completing the project because the way you’ve realized that something is too big for you. Maybe there are different aspects (bureaucratic, fiscal, commercial, legal, technical, etc) which had not even thought that you are able to handle.
You have idea of how much is that time wasted uselessly in a project which, if well planned, would have understood that it was not achievable before even start?
The feasibility of a project is one of the first things to analyze when you want to accomplish an idea.
There are cases where it may go well, when a project created almost for game and without any kind of planning, spreads in a viral way and maybe finds himself to be the first social network in the world’s most used, Facebook docet.
But these are more unique than rare cases, one that goes so other novecentonovantanove fail.
So before we start losing time in development of a project that we might not be feasible, we must sit down and analyze well the idea that we want to achieve.
The most important points to consider are the following:
What are the individual tasks to be performed to complete the project?How many and which figures/will need resources?How long it will carry out each task?What costs will face?Analyzing in detail the answers to these questions we will have an idea a bit clearer on the feasibility of the project.
In addition to this, in the case of an entrepreneurial idea, should be also assessed the validity of the initiative. How?
For example, using a tool like the Business Plan, which allows you to analyze in detail the many variables which may depend on the success or failure of the initiative:
the technical features that will have the product/service; the technologies/equipment needed; the type of market you intend to serve; the image you want to give the company, market research and competitive analysis, promotional policies that you intend to activate; price policies; the capital necessary to start and run enterprises; the bureaucracy to be completed;To avoid wasting our time – which nowadays becomes increasingly valuable – is essential to plan in detail every project on which we want to work.
You can make mistakes and fail even planning meticulously to perform every action, but at least nothing was left to chance.
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