I remember a team leader who was tasked with important, innovative decisions, and after an involved review of a client and a team, he was asked, “What is your number one key innovative decision?” And he said, “We’re buying a coffee pot.”
The coffee pot was on the fourth floor, and his team was on the third floor. Everyone on the team drank coffee. He did the math. It cost $40,000 a year to have the coffee pot one floor above them. They gave him twenty bucks to buy a coffee pot.
The more I work as a professional developer, the more I see things from a business perspective too. In business, there are two fundamental things that we have to focus on: value and risk. That’s really what business is all about, and that’s a solid ...