delivery
Ship a thin vertical slice in week one
The fastest way to de-risk a build is to get one real feature all the way to production before you commit to the architecture.
Most project risk is hiding in the seams: auth, deployment, the boundary between two teams. A thin vertical slice forces you through every seam in the first week.
Once the slice is live, every later decision is validated against a running system instead of a diagram. Estimates get sharper. Surprises get smaller.
If you can't ship a slice in a week, that's the most important thing you've learned this month.
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