Comments on Robbie Clutton: Gordon Ramsey and Software Craftmanship

absolutely, I really like 37Signals book, Getting Real and how it says "it's better to make half of a great product then a half assed product".

Every single project I ever worked on that failed,...

2007-12-19T20:34:00.000Z

Every single project I ever worked on that failed, failed because no one wanted to keep it simple, making it complicated was important. Software bloat, much like menu bloat, drives away developers and customers alike.
I think people are afraid of appearing less intelligent or less capable because their software doesnt have feature x y and z. Feature x will do, just make it the best damn feature x in the world.

There's also the importance of communication and t...

2007-12-18T17:52:00.000Z

There's also the importance of communication and teamwork. Last week he revealed that in his restaurants his team, by which he meant kitchen staff and front of house as one, went
out on team building event on average once a month, that's a lot more frequent than the average company's annual team build event.