Technology Development: Trains & Hitchhiking
Most people think software development is like traveling to a certain destination by train: You set a goal, pack your bags, board the train, and the only variable between you and your goal is the speed of the train. Unless the whole thing derails, you end up where you were planning on going. Unfortunately software development is more like hitchhiking: You set some general goals (somewhere sunny), pack your bags and after that where you end up depends on a whole lot of variables: who will pick you up and where will they be heading to? Along the...
read more‘That will do’ never does.
Do you ever find yourself thinking ‘That will do’? I do and have learned to accept it as a warning sign. ‘That will do’ means you are about to deliver something below par. If you find yourself about to walk away from a job that seems just good enough you should stop yourself and think about what you could add to turn your job from ‘That will do’ into ‘This is it!’. The ‘quick fix’ is seldon a real fix, the ‘Good enough’ solution is never good enough and ‘that will...
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