Ideas and execution – an enormous difference in effort

Re:Ideas and execution – an enormous difference in effort by bigiain on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:51PM (#4919660)

I had another "ideas guy" pitch me last night, and I wrote him most of this in an email, which when finished turned out to look like being worth a blog post.

This is for all those people who "just need a technical guy to code up my idea!"

It doesn't work like that. It _especially_ doesn't work like that if your idea is hardware…

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Re:Ideas and execution – an enormous difference in effort by sdoering on Friday December 14, 2012 @04:06AM (#4920149)

That is the reason, why I (being a product-guy at work) am learning to code. The more scripts I write, the more I learn about the faulty thinking of "this one should be easy".

It helps me to talk to the makers more clearly, more concise and more realistically. But it differentiates me so far from other product guys (or my uppers), as they do not understand, when I tell them, that their ideas might not be so easy to implement, as they believe.

Makes being the "middleware" between product-management and makers much more difficult, as I insist more and more on clear communicated specs, when I am used as a translator for the other product-guys.

Execution is the real deal. There was a nice quote from Derek Sivers[1], that ideas are just a multiplier for execution:

[1]: http://sivers.org/multiply

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Re:Ideas and execution – an enormous difference in effort by kcarruthers on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:52AM (#4919800)

that is true - it's a genuine collaboration between the various people and their skills + the original idea evolves as part of the process

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