2024 09 21 34 PAULINA CHOJNOWSKA -The Illusion of Success: When Delivering on Time is not Everything
summary
Four concrete case studies show deadlines met but costs paid: one project finishes by Wednesday after a bank holiday review and late PRs and produces burnout and lost family time; another ships spaghetti code and accrues tech debt; a VIP pull drains three teammates and endangers other roadmaps; a misread brief builds a complex swing instead of a simple tire. Recommendations include a prioritization matrix, defined MVP, risk-first sequencing (a DB column move takes a month), gun charts, Mirror board and Jira.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Deadlines power and hidden costs
- 2:16Case study one personal sacrifices
- 5:49Case study two post-crunch bolog
- 7:58Case study three lost orphans
- 9:44Case study four total confusion
- 11:29Hidden costs and solutions
- 12:33Real business need
- 13:34Prioritizing projects
- 14:40Resources and road mapping
- 15:46Setting deadlines
- 17:30Tech lead role
- 18:56Limiting scope to MVP
- 20:05Planning tasks and doubts
- 21:55Task dependencies and risks
- 22:37Documentation and communication
- 23:43Cleanup and stakeholder communication
- 24:06Post-MVP analysis
- 24:50Simple solutions and code maintenance
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