Colin Chapman<\/a>, and under his guidance a relatively small set of people set about changing the world.\u00a0 They were innovative and successful, always pushing the limits whether they be the limits of technology or the rule book.\u00a0 Helping with this success were some underlying principles and ideas, and one in particular which Colin referred to as ‘adding lightness’.\u00a0<\/p>\nWhy make something more than it needs to be?\u00a0 You don’t need huge amounts of power to move something that is agile and light.\u00a0 Add lightness to it, add simplicity, trim away all the excess crap you don’t need.\u00a0 A lightweight car will accelerate quicker, brake better and go round corners faster.\u00a0 Good things that will help win you races or make your customers smile.\u00a0 Isn’t that also what we want in IT?<\/p>\n
Whether its code, infrastructure or organisational structures anyone who works in IT will know that simplicity is always the best policy.\u00a0 Sure it’s not always possible, but as an objective or principle it’s hard to beat.<\/p>\n
By it’s nature Code is complex, so is infrastructure.\u00a0 Even so there can be a certain elegance to their design.\u00a0 I’m not developer, but even within the scripting I’ve done before there’s a certain pleasure in writing a script that applies a simple, elegant solution to a problem.\u00a0 Something simple will run faster, use less resource, be easier to support.\u00a0 Even easier to copy and paste into tomorrows project.<\/p>\n
If you’re solving problems or delivering projects, in my experience a small, highly motivated team of people will deliver faster and with better results than a complex heavyweight organisation.\u00a0 Give them some simple processes to use and a lightweight framework of standards and you’re laughing.<\/p>\n
Add lightness.\u00a0 You don’t need those cup holders.\u00a0 They’ll slow you down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m a car nut.\u00a0 There’s something about driving that captures my imagination.\u00a0 I’m never sure whether its the act of going somewhere, the sensation of reading the road through the steering wheel and the seat of your pants or just the cars themselves.\u00a0 Whatever it is, for me the journey is often as enjoyable as … <\/p>\n
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