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I assume you employ a two phase development methodology. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... getting paid, my personal favorite.
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If I start early on the main development cycle. If I'm jumping in at the end, finding ways to break my coworkers code is much more fun than tying up all their loose ends.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Actually, the best part is allocating functionality between hardware and software at the beginning, then integrating the two to make them play nice together. But neither was listed; I don't suppose many people do that sort of thing anymore. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: the best part is allocating functionality between hardware and software at the beginning, then integrating the two to make them play nice together.
I work in the Medical Diagnostic sector, we do that kinda stuff.
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In the Cranking out code phase it satisfies the inner drive to create and get er done.
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Improving design of a specific part of the system that grow over time and shows symptoms of needs for change, refactoring and when done, watching the resulting masterpiece in action. Just love it! 
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Favorite part is new solutions to old problems/methods - followed by approving nods from all who gaze, worship, and offerings.
Why else would anyone do it ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I'd worked many years in maintenance area and I have to say: It sucks!
It is a endless task to make the product work as expected!
Fabiano
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I work with a few developers which all they do is maintenance. It is because they don't have the skills to start anything new. They have to have examples of what works within the framework and then make small changes.
There are times when I like maintenance because it is quick and easy but I wouldn't want to do it all the time.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What? There's usually nothing "easy" about it. It's the thrill of the hunt, the problem solving, the satisfaction of making something work correctly or more efficiently which most developers seem to be not very skilled at doing. I've often been called in to finish up a developer's coding and make the application work as it was intended after the developers say it's done. Sure we only make small changes when doing maintenance but the hard part is figuring out where to make the change in someone else's code with little documentation or help.
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98% of the work in 2% of the time
2% of the work in 98% of the time
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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what about the sipping coffee phase??
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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Naaaah!
What about the getting blamed phase?
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Vivic wrote: What about the getting blamed phase?
That's right!!
The finger pointing and blame assignment phase is paramount in projects.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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Nothing beats the feeling of looking at pure white screen that I am about to fill with code.
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Yes.....!!!! And that two minutes of blank mind looking at white screen thinking what should I start with.
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I like challenges and I like starting something from scratch.
Designing a new application from scratch is one of be most challenging and exciting tasks for me.
Everything else tends to more or less follow in the same whole over and over again.
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Same here 
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getting paid
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I wish I could have selected more than one.
I wish, I could have written for my mind:
Mind.AsEnumerable().Where(m => m["EmptyCorner"] == "").ToList().ForEach(s => s.SetField("EmptyCorner", "C#, Asp.net, Linq, Java, .....Everyting"));
Mind.AcceptChanges();___________________________________________________
A little help through the tips and Articles
1. Table Valued Parameters
--Amit Kumar
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My suggestion is "Which is your least favourite phase of software development?"
My answer would be Brownfield Development. There's nothing worse than trying to add features to a software product that has no code documentation, no requirements, multiple coding and naming styles, partially adhered-to patterns interspersed with WTF hacks because certain developers either didn't understand or couldn't be bothered to maintain the inherent architecture and 70% of the original unit tests are in fact testing public static getters.
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Your brownfield has unit tests??? IMO brownfield testing starts at unmodified auto-generated tests created by Visual Studio that all return "Test Inconclusive. You have to write the guts first you nitwit." or which have no tests at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Your brownfield has unit tests???
And very grateful I am for them, let me tell you. Never before has my faith in auto properties been so strong
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