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

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

‘completion’. "

- Santayana, The Life of Reason

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

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Craftsmanship

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Craftsmanship is what differentiate a great professional from an ordinary

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What is craftsmanship?

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Passion

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Great dancers are not great because of their

technique; they are great because of their

passion. - Martha Graham

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Do you have Passion to challenge the

limits?

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Love

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Do you Love what you do?

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

fun. - Thomas A. Edison

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Knowledge and Skill

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Do you possesses the

necessary knowledge and

skills to perform the work?

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Excellence

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"Don’t look for a

better job, do a better

job at what you’re

doing now." - Charlie

Jones

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Attention to detail

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Give attention to the details and excellence will

come. - Perry Paxton

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Thirst for Learning

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Always walk through life as if you have

something new to learn and you will.

-Vernon Howard

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Embrace Change

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"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."

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Create Opportunities

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"To hell with circumstances.

I create opportunities.“

- Bruce Lee

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Pride & Sense of Completion

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Regardless of whatever you do, do it with …

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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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