How to become emotionally distant from your code or project?
This question comes as a realization I gained after I worked for the first time in a 8 months long project with 4 other members (3rd year university project). Needless to say the project was a bust ... a car crash mixed with a plane crash bust . I had an inkling of why it happened like:

- Didn't focus on details
- Didn't define and control scope creep
- so on....

But today after reading this [link text][1] I realized one of the biggest problem I had as a individual in team was I became to emotionally attached to the project. Although this realization is a little late ( the project finish in April ) I would like to learn from it. So how DOES one become unattached emotionally to their code? or moreover what do you think makes a person attached to their project in such a way that they lose their head and objectivity? 

  [1]: http://maximporges.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-become-software.html "Article"
How to become emotionally distant from your code or project?
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This question comes as a realization I gained after I worked for the first time in a 8 months long project with 4 other members (3rd year university project). Needless to say the project was a bust ... a car crash mixed with a plane crash bust . I had an inkling of why it happened like:

- Didn't focus on details
- Didn't define and control scope creep
- so on....

But today after reading this [link text][1] I realized one of the biggest problem I had as a individual in team was I became to emotionally attached to the project. Although this realization is a little late ( the project finish in April ) I would like to learn from it. So how DOES one become unattached emotionally to their code? or moreover what do you think makes a person attached to their project in such a way that they lose their head and objectivity? 

  [1]: http://maximporges.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-become-software.html "Article"