[alehlopeh]

The part about constraints is kind of muddled. Constraining the scope of your project is not the same thing as working within a set of externally imposed constraints, which is what people are usually referring to in stories about how being forced to do more with less led to an unexpected innovation of some kind. The former is really just defining the scope of the project, which is covered in the following section.

[hinkley]

I’ve had a few bosses give the speech about no heroes.

If I’ve given a speech, well there are several but the one relevant here is instead of trying to build the perfect product, building the best product we can build.

If you don’t follow that constraint you end up in Kernighan’s Law territory, and the wheels eventually come off.

Know your strengths. Build up or compliment your weaknesses, stop trying to Fake It Til You Make It when you’ve made it most of the way to where you’re going to get.