If you are running low on inspiration than I have something for you. At O’Reilly there is an interview available with Andy Hertzfeld, one of the leading designers on the early Macintosh-range. This interview is not only written, but you can also listen to it as podcast, so check it out.

From the interview:

James Turner: Reading your book, it seems like the project management style for the Mac was very loose. How would you compare it to conventional project management approaches like Agile or Waterfall?



Andy Hertzfeld: I’m not sure; I don’t even know what Waterfall is. I have a pretty good idea of what Agile programming is and in a way that’s the technique we used by the Mac. But I think you know all conventional processes will make conventional products. The key thing–the key ingredient to me is the passion that developers put into their work–how much of themselves they invest in it, and I think that’s kind of orthogonal to a conventional development process. You can, you know the formal process can be whatever but the key ingredient is the passion and you know and the Mac team had passion in spades.