How we run discovery without wasting time
Discovery is short, structured, and outcome-driven: confirm goals, map constraints, identify unknowns, and propose a safe first slice.
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What good documentation looks like
Docs should answer: what it does, how to run it, how to deploy it, and where it breaks. Anything else
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Estimating work without lying to yourself
Estimate in ranges, separate unknowns from known work, and review weekly. Precision theatre is how timelines die.
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A simple checklist before launching new features
Define success, confirm rollback plan, verify monitoring, and test the happy path plus the top failure modes. Launching should feel
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Integrations: how to avoid spaghetti systems
Keep integration points explicit. Use contracts (schemas), retries, idempotency, and monitoring. ‘It works on my machine’ is not an integration
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How to brief an engineering partner
Give context, constraints, access, and success criteria. The best brief is a clear problem statement plus examples of what ‘good’
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What to expect from a weekly delivery cadence
A good cadence is simple: clear scope, a visible backlog, regular demos, and zero surprises. If you can’t see progress