Via Team Forty:

“Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design helps us to understand a product. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consequent to the last detail. Good design is concerned with the environment. Good design is as little design as possible.” Dieter Rams

Mr. Robinson over on Blue Flavor started the new year off right with a nice little post about project management, which happens to echo our philosophy on the topic:

• Keep it simple.
• Stick with what works.
• Put the real before the ideal.
• Have a process but be flexible.
• When all else fails, just work.

We try to manage our projects just enough to get the job done. Anything else wastes your time and money. We do have a process, but we aren’t slaves to it. He closes with…

It’s far too easy to put a process in place that hinders more than it helps. If you find you’re working harder on the management of your projects than you are on the projects themselves, it’s probably a good idea to scale back, re-set expectations and focus on what’s important.