…a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs
Not
refer[ing] to a job done of necessity using whatever tools and materials come to hand and which, whilst not necessarily elegant, is nevertheless serviceable
I’ve read (re-found a reference here) that the meaning possibly changed to its derogatory form because the Bodgers didn’t do the whole job. They made most of the parts, but not the whole.
…the original bodgers only produced the turned parts and not the whole chair. There is no doubt that the bodgers were highly skilled, but the items they could produce were limited by their equipment.
I see the term ‘Digital Transformation’ going the way of ‘Bodging’.
Very skilled teams practice it, but they’re limited by their equipment, capability, remit and reach, when it comes to putting all the pieces together into a functioning and useful whole.
Carry on overworking this metaphor with this wonderful video of traditional bodging (how cool and clever is the pole lathe). Come on, when he lists all the things that he turns at this point, doesn’t it sound like a designer rattling off their in-group terms, like agile, scrums, sprints, retros and double diamonds!?
