continuing from the Local Food Northland Software Project document
Similar to what physical tools you have available on your work site, computer systems are tools we rely on to facilitate the work we do. This project requires us to build new computer systems, yet we want these systems to be re-usable for ourselves in other projects as well as others. To achieve this, for this project we are not building one tool, we are building an ecosystem of tools (re-usable micro-services) that each focus on a single concern of the overall problem space. To limit our scope, we will only commit to building the features of these tools that we need for this project.