I don't blog enough

I have been extremely busy at work and home and working hard on my projects, thus failing to blog much. There have been questions, and I have had moments when I really want to blog, but I just never seem to get around to it. Well. It's time to get back on the horse. Even if I don't have a "big topic" I need to blog something for my own sanity.

I've been concerned with the triangle lately. You know, the classic time-cost-quality deal. It's getting harder and harder for me to explain that "yes, I can achieve said request, but to do it well it will take me quite some time OR we will have to rely on outside help at a premium." The understanding becomes that I am simply not working HARD enough, and should come in at the weekend, thus sacrificing the time that allows me to recuperate my mental capacity and create quality products in a high-pressure environment. No thanks.

So I'm checking out my news on Google Reader (awesome feed reader, btw) and came across this quote in a post about quitting:

My very first job out of university was as a software developer for Bang&Olufsen, famous makers of high-end stereos and TVs. I quickly discovered that I didn’t fit in. The insanely high quality standards that B&O (rightfully) apply to their products and the software inside them meant that the software development process was slow, laborious, measured and very structured. For a person like me who is creative, fast-thinking and unused to bureaucracy, this approach felt like a slow death.

High quality = slow and laborious, even when plenty of money is being thrown at the issue. Nice, huh? Something to consider.