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The Nine-Day Project
The scoping rule that emptied my backlog: if it cannot ship in nine days, it is two projects.
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Why nine
Nine days spans two weekends and one full working week. It is long enough for real work and short enough that you can still remember why you started.
Anything longer needs a plan, and a plan is where solo projects go to be admired instead of finished.
A plan is where solo projects go to be admired instead of finished.
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How to cut
Cut features until one honest use case remains, then cut the parts of that use case that only matter at scale you do not have.
Still being expanded — the worked examples from the last three projects go in next.
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