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Seconded. I had to delegate the production of cover art for my recent novel, as I could not even pretend to overestimate my art skills. Even then, I managed to
by thirdtruck 13y ago
Seconded. I had to delegate the production of cover art for my recent novel, as I could not even pretend to overestimate my art skills. Even then, I managed to let a major error (likely a failure of instruction) get through, which will require one more editorial task for me.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoI suppose the corollary of this is that you have to make sure you put in place quality control checkpoints so you can make sure delegated work is done correctly. This sort of thing tends to be ignored when you do something yourself because you'll usually do simple double-checks to verify the work you've done as a matter of course.
- thirdtruck 13y agoMakes sense. I look forward to figuring out how to apply TDD- and BDD-like methodologies to non-software processes.