This handy expression can be used by anyone shamelessly incorporating the work and experience of others into their latest project – it even sounds a bit humble.
In fact anyone building a modern interactive web site like us at SeaKayakWales is going to be humbled by both the quality of what is already out there and the generosity with which so much skill and experience is shared with those that follow.
We know that we have some unique problems to solve in devising, presenting and then evaluating the sea kayak trips we will be presenting to users during 2012 and beyond. However, many of these problems can be broken down into sub-problems that have been successfully solved elsewhere. While we have to ensure that our style and processes meet the needs of our intended audience we will always be happy to learn from best practice elsewhere. We don’t want to be “the same” but we do aspire to be “as good” as the best.
There is a potential conflict between the aspiration to be as good as we can get and the desire to ship. “Ship early and ship often” is a great mantra for getting things done but it does mean that the polish might get left behind. We have come up with a new phrase that might cover it – “pragmatic perfectionism”.
We will keep trying to improve the way everything works but not at the expense of shipping new stuff – we will have to see how we get on.
We will be acknowledging the primary influences on our user interfaces and technology stack decisions in due course – once the bugs and worst errors have been removed from our efforts.
It would not be a great compliment to others to say we built upon some of their ideas if all we had to expose was our incompetence.
In the mean time, if you have some web sites, blog posts, photographs or what have you likely to be of interest to sea kayakers then please pop over to www.seakayakwales.com sign in and add a link to our news page. While you are there, take a look at the other items being posted – they might well entertain you.
In fact anyone building a modern interactive web site like us at SeaKayakWales is going to be humbled by both the quality of what is already out there and the generosity with which so much skill and experience is shared with those that follow.
We know that we have some unique problems to solve in devising, presenting and then evaluating the sea kayak trips we will be presenting to users during 2012 and beyond. However, many of these problems can be broken down into sub-problems that have been successfully solved elsewhere. While we have to ensure that our style and processes meet the needs of our intended audience we will always be happy to learn from best practice elsewhere. We don’t want to be “the same” but we do aspire to be “as good” as the best.
There is a potential conflict between the aspiration to be as good as we can get and the desire to ship. “Ship early and ship often” is a great mantra for getting things done but it does mean that the polish might get left behind. We have come up with a new phrase that might cover it – “pragmatic perfectionism”.
We will keep trying to improve the way everything works but not at the expense of shipping new stuff – we will have to see how we get on.
We will be acknowledging the primary influences on our user interfaces and technology stack decisions in due course – once the bugs and worst errors have been removed from our efforts.
It would not be a great compliment to others to say we built upon some of their ideas if all we had to expose was our incompetence.
In the mean time, if you have some web sites, blog posts, photographs or what have you likely to be of interest to sea kayakers then please pop over to www.seakayakwales.com sign in and add a link to our news page. While you are there, take a look at the other items being posted – they might well entertain you.
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