"For God's sake, Mane, do not strike at what you are looking but at what you intend to hit" - Nikola Tesla's father admonition to his cross-eyed helper while chopping wood on the farm, My Inventions, Nikola Tesla, published in a 6 part seriesin Electrical Experimenter, Feb-Jun and Oct, 1919.
This advice here is we must have a target to aim for, not just measure where we are now. This is the simple fallacy of some agile approaches, that claim doing the next important thing, with no sense of what Done looks like, how to get to Done, what it will cost to get to Done, and when we'll arrive at Done.
