Building the right tool for the job

It's important to build the right tools to allow people to think about WHAT they are doing instead of HOW they are doing it. What are the benefits of automation. Productivity, consistency, accuracy... and how the best way to achieve this is via simplicity.

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1. Building the right tool f r b @mariagutierrez
3. In love I f w b w r
4. Operational tools “r r v f r ”
5. Goals Productivity Accuracy Consistency Transparency
6. Internal Tool? S I b Does it exist already? Hosted vs Online Too expensive? Can be customised? Enough support?
7. Let’s build it!
8. Problem K w Goal? Domain experts
9. User K w Developer? How often?
10. Used K w w
11. Reliabity and performance how critical? new technology?
12. Manage change
13. Evangelise it Evangelise it Evangelise it Evangelise it
14. Right? W w
15. Goals Productivity Accuracy Consistency Transparency
16. r rv w https://github.com/livingsocial/rearview
17. $£
18. “W b B f r r w r . W ' r r f w w w r w r . W r "M , I " r "H w ?" r " !"” Jason Fried, 37 Signals http://www.oreillynet.com/network/2005/03/10/basecamp.html
19. Optimise for happiness
21. Thanks! @mariagutierrez