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Obsessing over minutiae won't help you to see the bigger picture. I think it's important to show your work early, in order that others can feedback. It's very

• hinkley 9y ago
  Obsessing over minutiae won't help you to see the bigger picture. You can paint Get’er done people with that brush too. Efficiently producing wrong code helps nobody but yourself. There are flavors of good engineering that allow the team to maintain velocity year over year. Too often those techniques get thrown under the perfectionism bus and then later the team blames “bad luck” [edit or ‘stupid people’ not them] for their failures.
  • lhnz 9y ago
    This misinterprets what I'm saying. Which is: people that focus on perfection are too often working diligently on their own, sweating details which are unimportant to the quality of the outcome. I frequently meet people that believe themselves to be 'perfectionists' but whom create poor quality work due to a reluctance to let other see their work before it is 'done'. In order to get perfection, you need to be doing the right thing. In order to do the right thing, you cannot be working within a bubble. Edit: I think everybody read things into what I said which weren't there. "Look an anti-perfectionist! He must be against quality work. Little does he realise that we can be faster by focusing on 'perfection'." This is true but you need to make sure that you are not adding finesse to the wrong solution!