Here's how you can overcome common challenges when solving problems as a system developer.

Clear goals provide a specific direction and focus for your efforts. Knowing what you need to achieve, you can better plan your approach and allocate resources efficiently ensuring that you stay aligned with the project's overall objectives. With defined goals, you can break down the problem into manageable tasks and set realistic timelines for each allowing you to progress systematically through the problem-solving process. Further, goals help you identify the core aspects of a problem by highlighting what needs to be achieved, which helps in prioritizing issues based on their impact on the end goals. You can focus on solving high-priority problems that directly influence your objectives, ensuring that critical issues are addressed first.

When we start working on any project, establishing clear goals is paramount. These goals serve as a guiding light, illuminating the path to success and ensuring every step taken is purposeful and directed. With defined objectives in place, we can navigate the project's development with clarity, empower the team with focus, motivation, and a sense of purpose. This helps in laying down the foundation for efficient decision-making, effective resource allocation, and ultimately, the achievement of desired outcomes. In essence, setting clear goals is not just a precursor to success; it's the catalyst that propels us towards it, fueling productivity, innovation, and growth along the way.

Once we have a clear goal, the next important thing is requirement gathering. Many times we see that teams would not have a lot of details when they come up with an idea, which drills down as our roadmap asks. So our prime focus has to be to gather as many details as possible. Have clear documentation of business cases,User and Data journeys and the most crucial is identifying and finalizing cross-over functionalities.

Depending on the urgency and criticality, various mechanisms may be deployed. I've found the task force approach effective for urgent, critical, or time-consuming issues. It's crucial to carefully select involved parties and stakeholders to ensure the right experts are present and key stakeholders are informed, thereby enhancing the focus and reducing redundant reporting. Systematic tracking of progress and attempted solutions is also very important.

In addition to above, I would like to share few more: - once you know the issue, prioritize the triage and ticket efficiently, do not just drop everything - read your logs and gather all your why’s - try to recreate and collect the steps, this will help you define the severity and impact -document - communicate -review - assign, estimate efforts -fix, test, deploy and monitor- the usual fours Here the planning is a critical phase and rest is all the existing process almost everywhere in industry