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Agreed, especially for MVPs and "phase 1" projects.

At my current company, it's reached a point where we flat out reject product proposals for features or changes that would need to be hacked together for an MVP without a time commitment from all necessary stakeholders on how it will properly be implemented for phase two (iff phase one is a success). It's amazing how quickly "critical" features become irrelevant to product when they understand even half the amount of work required to properly implement them.



Knowing when to say ‘No’ is an important (and probably underrated) skill.




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