I read an article last night that gave me some very good ideas. It started with a poem:
I always eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
They do taste kind of funny
But it keeps them on my knife
– anonymous
In IT we are often doing the same things as eating peas with honey because we are using a knife. What we need to do is not create solutions that make bad things bearable, but that actually fix the root of the problem – getting a spoon instead of using a knife.
So I went through my projects today to see how many of them could be considered “honey projects” – probably half of them could go away with a good CRM solution.
Even better, not only would they go away but they would be easier to maintain in the future. I’ve started, instead of looking at my projects a entities in and of themselves, looking at them in the whole scheme of things and whether they only are a band-aid to cover a problem, or if they are actually fixing it. Its a good change and I anticipate that looking at things this way will help to make projects in the future more productive.
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