Getting started.

And by “getting started” I mean, getting everybody to sign off on what “done” looks like.

Refusing to accept “let’s cross that bridge when we get there.”

Refusing to accept “let’s just get a few things going and revisit as we go.”

Refusing to accept “we’ll see where this sprint takes us.”

None of that.

The hard part might be getting the idea out of your head. Creating a visual. Creating the rules and the logic. Imagining the outcome in real terms. Writing it out simply. Going to stakeholders and asking for their “approval to build as scoped.”

Perhaps even harder than that is informing stakeholders that no changes are allowed once building starts. Why?

Because shipping the work is too important.