Jonathan Kochis' recent blog post on the Resolution IM blog contrasted the roles of web developers as creators and configurators. Andrew McClenaghan from Echidna Solutions has taken to the Echidna blog to ask that question about his own company. 

This really got me thinking… are we at Echidna, a creator or a configurator? 

When I first started Echidna I wanted to create everything from scratch. Being a developer, creating meant coding to me.  I enjoyed the creative challenge of writing new code in different ways for each client.

As my team grew I found that I kept evolving my code base and leaving my teammates behind. I just wasn’t good at sharing my knowledge with my team - not to mention changing my methods too frequently.

If we wanted to grow and mature as a web development shop, we needed to standardize and work together.

Read the full post on the Echidna blog.