Where’s your blueprint?

It's hard to create something really great without having a good plan first.

When I first moved to my small North Texas town, I looked at a lot of houses to find just the right one.

And I was surprised by the number of homes—several of them—that had started out as simple one-bedroom bungalows, but had eventually sprawled into five-bedroom monstrosities with four bathrooms, three living rooms, five exterior doors, and no hallways.

Oh look, if you walk through this bedroom directly into the other bedroom you can get to the back door.

Yes, a large home with ample accommodation sounds nice. But having a bedroom that doubles as a hallway, not so much.

What these homes had in common was that they were not built on a solid plan—not in their current form., anyway.

And when the many successive additions were made, very little long-term planning had been done to consider how it would all fit together.

Here's the thing:

When you start off with your open-source CRM, it's okay to start small. But it's important to do the right planning from the beginning, and then do it again when you make significant additions, to make sure it all works together nicely.

Keep expanding, it's okay. But do so with a clear plan that aims at clear goals.

All the best,
A.