approach.botonomy.com http://approach.botonomy.com The ABCs of Modern Project Management and Software Delivery (or at least our take on them) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:53:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha en Focus is not Laziness http://approach.botonomy.com/2006/05/10/focus-is-not-laziness/ http://approach.botonomy.com/2006/05/10/focus-is-not-laziness/#comments Thu, 11 May 2006 01:51:04 +0000 Mike Focus Introduction http://approach.botonomy.com/2006/05/10/focus-is-not-laziness/ Larry Wall, the creator of Perl (a very popular programming language) says that the three virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
As a project team, you always want to “Maximize the work that you don’t have to do”. This does not mean that you are lazy, either in the negative sense or even in the strict Larry Wall sense. What it means is that you are actively identifying the areas of low-value work that you could reasonably do in the course of the project, and INTENTIONALLY NOT DOING THEM.

By specifically identifying the things that you aren’t doing (the anti-requirements, so to speak), you are doing two things:
1) Reinforcing the focus and scope of the real work at hand
2) Taking a second pass through the out-of-scope activities to ensure that they are not required.

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