What's the secret of success of an IT project?
You need to have a purpose for its existence. Why should it exist? What will the content of the application be like?
You need to consider the users? Who are the users?
You need to visualize the User Interface in your mind or draw it in paper or a gui tool.
You need to know what is the purpose of the application being developed? The Main Set of functionality of the application. What set of functionality is essential and what is non-essential.
You have to understand the marketing and financial plan for the project.
If you can do software reuse for the project then do it by all means.
Once you understand all this make a project plan, prioritize the functionality, and develop the app in iterations and alongside make the app live and do a little bit of marketing. Facebook Marketing or YouTube Marketing.
Get the market response asap and see if it's attracting the audience.
Thereafter plan the maintenance work and keep making the application better than before.
Now, whether you can build a discipline to develop the app is in your hands.
If the application is a success then you have proved yourself. The discipline to build it is secondary. Slowly you can build the discipline to develop applications.
See the victory in your mind first and then you will see the software in the world.
If you can follow the agile principles then it is for your own good. However if you can't follow them then practice the agile principles at your own pace.
Remember, the application should have a worthy functionality, it should entice people to use them. It should grab the attention of users. And slowly you will become a great software engineer.
An IT project build with a least amount of budget won't hurt you even if it fails.
So, the Success behind the IT project is in your hands.
Goodbye and God Bless!
