So much time... so little worth

So I'm going back into Software and once again I start thinking about the problems of planning and co-ordination between different parts of a project.

Project Co-ordinators and the like spend an incredible amount of time producing schedules (or plans as some call them) but they are often such guesses that they are little more than useless. Its not just software where phrases like "You start coding and I'll find out the requirements" can be heard.

So OK you are not going to come up with the perfect solution straight away but the problem becomes that people become afraid to change the plan once the sizing of the project is better known. Then its the poor Software Engineers that have to fit around these 'wrong' schedules.

I have the idea (which I'm sure that others do as well) the principles of agile development should be applied to agile scheduling. But I really think that this needs to be done by a program rather than a human to get away from the ego!

Looking for new fields to play in

Its time to move along. Think I will go back to software. Had a break so it might be more difficult than I would like but its a challenge I'm sure I won't have too much trouble getting over.

I've also got a few new ideas for web application that I might look into. And as such I'm learning Ruby on Rails while I look for a new job. Now I'm trying to arrange some funding for my ideas but lets see if the timing works as I might have to sell my soul again.

Just seems to be so many small areas of functionality that people are ignoring. Probably because they are too small for bigger companies but selling 1 thing for £100 is the same ans selling 100 smaller things for £1 on the low as you like overheads of the internet.