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by taproot
4572 days ago
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I cant recall the quote but someone once said the best devepopment methodology was to hire a bunch of 10x developers, lock them in a room with a mission statement and leave them to their own devices. The problem with that is not much unlike waterfall, it provides little to no transparencyfor the employing party, very little accountability and almost no meaningful measureability. |
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This is why the majority of start ups fail. Developers have a ridgid vision of product, and then they spend 6/7 months building that product and then at the end you find out no one actually wants that product. Even though the product is good, its just solves a problem no ones interested in.
You need have system to actually work discover if you are creating value. You need something to hold yourself accountable.
In reality most successful start ups have a phase of constant learning, just to discover who are their customers, and what they place value on. And they normally have various metrics to hold themselves accountable.
The best way I have encountered is agile development with experiments to find out what customers actually need. Then metrics to see how people react to changes. If your vision isn't going anywhere, then you need a fundamental rethink which again needs to be tested.