Craftsmanship: The Meaning of Life

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This presentation created to promote ‘Craftsmanship’ as the core principle of software development methodologies.

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Craftsmanship: The Meaning of Life.

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or a sense of completion, asense of purposeand pride

"What I have yearned for all my life is not so much cosmic unity, but simply

‘completion’. "

- Santayana, The Life of Reason

Sense of Completion comes from our ability to do things with purpose, quality and beauty.

Craftsmanship

Craftsmanship is what differentiate a great professional from an ordinary

What is craftsmanship?

Passion

Great dancers are not great because of their

technique; they are great because of their

passion. - Martha Graham

Do you have Passion to challenge the

limits?

Love

Do you Love what you do?

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all

fun. - Thomas A. Edison

Knowledge and Skill

Do you possesses the

necessary knowledge and

skills to perform the work?

Excellence

"Don’t look for a

better job, do a better

job at what you’re

doing now." - Charlie

Jones

Attention to detail

Give attention to the details and excellence will

come. - Perry Paxton

Thirst for Learning

Always walk through life as if you have

something new to learn and you will.

-Vernon Howard

Embrace Change

"Challenges make you discover things about

yourself that you never really knew. They're

what make the instrument stretch-what make

you go beyond the norm."

Source: http://www.redbubble.com/people/mugsy/art/677011-4-a-road-less-traveled

Create Opportunities

"To hell with circumstances.

I create opportunities.“

- Bruce Lee

Pride & Sense of Completion

Regardless of whatever you do, do it with …

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. - Bliss Carman

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