I’ve been immersed in 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rework. It’s hard to single out one point since the entire book has been so enlightening, but one bit that hit home was the need for a curator.
You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room…The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.
At my company, we constantly run from feature to feature, implementing solutions that are about 80% complete and moving onto the next thing. The result is a lot of half baked and buggy features. At a museum, the curator is responsible for choosing what pieces to display. What isn’t on the walls is as important as what is on them. If you are going to implement something, do it well. If you don’t have time to do it well, don’t do it.