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Jobs delivered. His company Apple delivered a new version every year. That always was his trump card, perfectionism came within these bounds. When FaceTime was
by vladd 15y ago
Jobs delivered. His company Apple delivered a new version every year. That always was his trump card, perfectionism came within these bounds.
When FaceTime was the only feature he liked, he dropped everything else and announced on stage that it is the only main thing that they've added (and then went on about how cool it is). There's a video on the net [1] showing him as NeXT CEO and even then he talked about the time they've got to make it work and how they can fit into it.
[1] http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/20/watch-steve-jobs-brainstorm-with-the-next-team-in-this-fascinating-video/ http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/20/watch-steve-jobs...
- ilaksh 15y agoIt sounds like its about prioritization and selection of tasks as much as it is about knowing when to stop improving things. This gets into what (should be) basic project management knowledge. There is only a certain amount of scope and level of quality that is possible given a fixed set of resources and time. I think a lot of groups try to do too many different things perfectly and spread themselves too thin, ultimately sacrificing quality and letting deadlines slip. They should be putting extra time and effort into the most important things, leaving off of other problems when the solutions are good enough, and dropping or deferring some unimportant tasks.