[jnsaff2]

I the book How Big Things Get Done they analyze big and small project failures and success and end up with something along the lines:

1. Spend as much time in planning as necessary, in the context of mega projects planning is essentially free, maximize the time and value gained in planning.

2. Once you start execution of the plan, move as fast as possible to reduce likelihood of unforeseen events and also reduce costs increases due to inflation, interest paid on capital etc.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61327449-how-big-things-...

[SaltyBackendGuy]

+1 for "How Big Things Get Done". It changed the way I run projects. I got lucky in the sense that I was able to convince my corporate overloads to allow us to have separate Discovery and Delivery goals, on the premise that discovery is cheap and delivery is expensive (the former significantly reduces risk of the latter) and we show our work. Discovery goals come with prototype deliverables that we're ok not shipping to production but most times lay the foundational work to ship the final product. Every single time we've found something that challenged our initial assumptions and we now catch these issues early instead of in the delivery phase.

We've fully embraced the "Try, Learn, Repeat" philosophy.

[CuriousSkeptic]

> convince my corporate overloads to allow us to have separate Discovery and Delivery goals

Since I’m in the middle of trying to do something similar, would love to hear more details. What kind of goals, whats the conflict?