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Fix Time and Budget, Flex Scope | Getting Real

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Heads up! This page uses features your browser doesn’t support. Try a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome for the best experience. CHAPTER 7: Next: Have an Enemy Here’s an easy way to launch on time and on budget: keep them fixed. Never throw more time or money at a problem, just scale back the scope. There’s a myth that goes like this: we can launch on time, on budget, and on scope. It almost never happens and when it does quality often suffers. If you can’t fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don’t expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There’s always time to add stuff later — later is eternal, now is fleeting. Launching something great that’s a little smaller in scope than planned is better than launching something mediocre and full of holes because you had to hit some magical time, budget, and scope window. Leave the magic to Houdini. You’ve got a real business to run and a real product to deliver. Here are the benefits of fixing time and

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