Learning a lot in my few years of programming that the best projects are the ones with a clear ‘strategic plan’.
That means understanding the goal and research, Research, and RESEARCH!
The most important concept that teams has to realize that it’s not the ‘goal’ to show how smart you are or use the most complex design patterns, but having a simple and clear way of obtaining the desired plan.
I moving into a leader role; I wonder if some of you have any opinions on my comments?
I wrote a "philosophy" of leading software development teams in which you may find some useful perspectives. Find it here : http://aaronofward.com/philosophy.html