🌟 Phase II

I continue to watch The Dropout and got another post inspiration idea from there. So Theranos needs to launch a project in September, but their product is far from being ready. What do they do? Elisabeth decides to start the project, do blood analysis using the Siemens device, and call it Phase I. Which assumes that the product of Theranos will still be eventually built, but it will be the Phase II.

Phase II is a magical place, which we also often use in software development. You work on the feature or a project and by doing that, you and your team often see areas for improvement. You can add more automation, make a better UX, prepare your project for scaling, etc. All these ideas are good, but this impacts our scope. The scope gets bigger, and that delays the project's launch.

Good dev knows, that it's more important to launch the project and start measuring whether our idea was right or not, than delay the product launch in favor of perfectionism.

Phase II trick allows you to deliver faster. If your team has ideas that are good, but you think that current scope will already help customer or business, suggest them to put these ideas to the epic called "Phase II". This decreases the cognitive load and keeps everyone happy.

⬛️ Our job is to deliver, not "work". There are always more ideas, than resources which our team has. Postpone non critical stuff for later. Later, you will have time to reevaluate these ideas, and, what is also important, you will have more information, that allows you to assess their impact better.