Failure
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career
The Pitfalls of Underestimating Project Duration and Skipping Discovery Phase
Underestimating the project duration led to a two and a half year delay in completing a core product, causing frustration and skepticism among team members. The project suffered due to arrogance, lack of proper discovery, and insufficient technical and design research. Despite the lengthy and challenging process, the project did not significantly impact the business. The speaker advises against undertaking rewrites without careful consideration, as it often leads to negative outcomes and disrupts ongoing work in the new environment, resulting in the need to urgently launch incomplete experiments.
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