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Chris On The Bridge: Build To Learn
During the pandemic I shared a short series of videos about some of the software development and teamwork
topics that Lab Zero was facing. Here's one about the importance in learning when building software
products...
Software development is tricky and can be expensive. If your hopes and dreams
involve delivering software, you better be ready to learn about the impact it
makes. Sustained value comes from taking stock of what you've delivered and
improving upon it. Software enables a relationship between a business and its
customers - so learning is a requisite part of building.
Transcript from the video:
This is Chris with Lab Zero. We work with a
lot of clients who are
trying to launch new things, trying to accelerate their new product or a new
feature that needs some help from a team that knows their stuff. They'll call up
Lab Zero and we're pretty good about helping our clients deliver software
they can rely on, that does a job.
Every once in a while I have that conversation with someone
asks me in all earnesty and all seriousness, "we're ready to build this
thing (can you help?)" and when I start probing and asking a little bit
to get a little bit of the background, usually interesting things happen.
When I ask, "what do you want this thing to do, this thing you
want to build?" That is the doorway to some really interesting topics.
One of the things that we've learned from going down that hall a bunch of
times and going through that door is that building doesn't happen on its own.
It's expensive! You got to build things right. But really building is for a
purpose - it's about delivering value to your customers (of course), but more
importantly it's about learning.
One of the things we have said to ourselves and now I'm saying it to
you - you're ready to build when you're ready to learn.
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