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I’ve made a lot of internal tools over the years and I try to “eat my own dog food” by using my tools for my own work. I seek feedback of those who use the tool and attempt to ensure the tools themselves do not create a headwind. Tools that make work harder rather than easier will never be upvoted.
Although we may not put the same kind of polish on internal tools that we do for product that faces external customers there must still be a reasonable expectation of professionalism and solid design and documentation practices embedded in any internal tool, IMHO.
Good practice
Definitely not, but we should
It's really hard to get that focus setting right. Too much focus and you're burning gas in neutral. Too little and you're revving with the handbrake on.
You basically need to keep adjusting that based on scale, ease of access, and key man risk on key operations. Eventually you NEED to focus on HOW things are done to improve on execution.
Focusing on it too much too early will likely end up leaving you too slow to get your business off the ground.
If you don't focus on it enough... your operations and execution will simply plateau.
So true