The best is the enemy of the good

Blogged under General by Mark Dalgarno on Saturday 24 June 2006 at 5:05 pm

I saw this aphorism on a manager’s whiteboard once.

I guess it was an attempt to guide himself or his engineers away from gold-plating the system they were working on. But I didn’t ask for and he didn’t offer an explanation.

However, if you were determined to develop the best systems possible, then I guess it could have been pretty demotivating to see that.

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