Last night I was musing on the importance of prep in IT projects.
I was being all serious, remembering the quote “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening my axe.”
Thinking of analogies like “when you’re painting your house or a piece of furniture, you get the best finish when you’ve invested time to properly prep the surface first”.
Because the same is true of developers. We treat our devs like the rock stars in a project. And they are.
But ask them how much easier their job is when they’re fed the right work, in the right size, in the right order.
Your dev team may be the rock stars, but it’s your visual and functional team that wrote the music.
And before I knew it, I had ABBA’s “Thank you for the music” swirling around in my head. I reckon I’m going to be stuck with it all day. Quick, give me something else instead!
Because the same is true of developers. We treat our devs like the rock stars in a project. And they are.
But ask them how much easier their job is when they’re fed the right work, in the right size, in the right order.
Your dev team may be the rock stars, but it’s your visual and functional team that wrote the music.
And before I knew it, I had ABBA’s “Thank you for the music” swirling around in my head. I reckon I’m going to be stuck with it all day. Quick, give me something else instead!