More well-wrought crap lovingly crafted for your disposal

July 8th, 2010

- or – building the wrong thing, really, really well.

The epitaph of many agile teams.

Antique Car You can optimize your construction practices as much as you want but if there is no discernible need for what you’re building…

The goal is not to build crap well. It is to find a way each day to do less and less crap and more and more not crap.

If this were easy, there’d be a lot more software that people should really get there hands on.

Let’s all look in the mirror on that one…

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I am an executive manager, software developer, father and husband trying to do more good than harm.

Working to spend each day doing a little less crap and a little more not crap than the day before. Without delegating my crap to others.

Aspiring to pride in my accom- plishments and pride in who I become as I attain them.

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