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Embrace Constraints | Getting Real

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Heads up! This page uses features your browser doesn’t support. Try a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome for the best experience. CHAPTER 13: Next: Be Yourself There’s never enough to go around. Not enough time. Not enough money. Not enough people. That’s a good thing. Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage. When we were building Basecamp, we had plenty of limitations. We had: We felt the “not enough” blues. So we kept our plate small. That way we could only put so much on it. We took big tasks and broke them up into small bits that we tackled one at a time. We moved step by step and prioritized as we went along. That forced us to come up with creative solutions. We lowered our cost of change by always building less software. We gave people just enough features to solve their own problems their own way — and then we got out of the way

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