What’s most important: features, schedule or vision?

This is sage advice from Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital on the balancing act of shipping a technology product.

bijan:

I learned a lot of valuable lessons working with Steve Perlman at WebTV Networks and Moxi Digital.

If you worked or met with Steve you would easily agree with me that his passion is nothing but extraordinary. He is positively obsessed about building amazing products.

I learned other things from Steve as well. One of my favorites is V.S.C.F. VSCF is how he would keep priorities in order.

Those letters stand for: Vision. Schedule. Cost. Features. And in that order.

This is how how Steve explained it to me […]

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