Making quality that lasts.

The most important kinds of things I do in my job are not meeting deadlines. What's a lot better than that is focusing on the deadline for a given feature set. Then an idea for a feature or improvement will come along that will turn the capability of the project from decent to excellent. That's when I put in that extra 25% in that ties up all the loose ends and makes the feature set so good that I never have to go back to the project. Reaching that kind of perfection is hard and it's often annoying because it takes longer than normal, but in the end it often pays for itself many times over.