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Make it work, then make it good

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+title: Make it work, then make it good
+date: 2025-01-29
+permalink: daily/2025/01/29/make-it-work
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+  - software-development
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+  When developing new software, my main objective is to make it work. Then, I make it look nice.
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+I've recently been writing a new custom module for a Drupal application.
+
+I needed to create a form populated with options from an API endpoint, submitted the form values to another API endpoint and display some results to the user.
+
+I'd architected and planned the steps I was going to need and knew how I was going to approach adding this new functionality.
+
+My first objective was to make it work.
+
+To get all the functionality in place so it was working as soon as possible with minimal distractions.
+
+This meant I would find any issues sooner rather than later and what I'd created could be reviewed and tested by stakeholders, regardless of how it looked.
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+If needed, it could have been released at this point.
+
+It was working.
+
+Next, I did a second pass to make it good.
+
+I updated the markup and styled it to match the provided designs.
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+I made small updates to terminology and messaging to ensure the tone of voice was correct and consistent with the rest of the application and various other small tweaks and improvements.
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+I could do all this knowing the functionality was already working, and I could focus on making it good.