Comments on: too organized? http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2009/02/too-organized/ Thu, 24 May 2012 20:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stuart Marks http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2009/02/too-organized/comment-page-1/#comment-119682 Stuart Marks Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:00:15 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/?p=1595#comment-119682 Thanks for linking to Ron Jeffries' blog. Somehow with all the agile reading I've done I've managed to miss his blog. But now that I look at it, I see that he has a lot of gems there. Interesting quote from David Allen as well. To me it means that "being organized" isn't following all the rules about what to do to be organized, but rather it means organizing things in such way as to be most <i>effective</i>. If you're not effective, you're not organized, regardless of how many of the rules you follow. Similarly (though I don't think he made that point explicitly) Jeffries' article claims that code improvement is never costly; therefore, if a change you're making is too costly, it's not an improvement! Thanks for linking to Ron Jeffries’ blog. Somehow with all the agile reading I’ve done I’ve managed to miss his blog. But now that I look at it, I see that he has a lot of gems there.

Interesting quote from David Allen as well. To me it means that “being organized” isn’t following all the rules about what to do to be organized, but rather it means organizing things in such way as to be most effective. If you’re not effective, you’re not organized, regardless of how many of the rules you follow.

Similarly (though I don’t think he made that point explicitly) Jeffries’ article claims that code improvement is never costly; therefore, if a change you’re making is too costly, it’s not an improvement!

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