Delivering Unicorns
summary
Projects over £1M with scope >1 year fail much more often than small ones, so cut scope into modules, aim for an MVP, and shorten time to market. Beware watermelon reporting: status looks green until a week before deployment. Large backlogs hide reality — one example is 10,000 user stories and five‑year projects — so try the trick of treating everything as one story point to reveal a decade of work. Use a product tree plus a ROI vs cost filter and design real feedback loops tied to core business processes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 10:38Watermelon reporting
- 12:24When to stop investing?
- 16:47no product vision
- 22:58gold plating
- 28:40Product tree
- 32:24Understand what you are building
- 33:28Game changers vs. show stoppers
- 46:25Design feedback loop
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