My emphasis is that this feature has the potential to be more impactful than people realize.
So basically: People over-estimate their ability in the way you're describing, but organizations with "brownfield products" struggle to achieve hypothetically possible outcomes of highly impactful features which could or should be "two day projects" and instead turn them into multi-month projects which might go nowhere.
It's a hard problem to solve for, but I feel like people think that when people think "what can get done in a very short amount of time" they usually think about brand new projects whereas I think the focus on existing ecosystems is where the opportunity is.
You're essentially saying a feature can be built in a weekend, especially in bigger companies.
I definitely buy that, mostly because all the things that take a lot of time has been done before that!
Yes I agree.
My emphasis is that this feature has the potential to be more impactful than people realize.
So basically: People over-estimate their ability in the way you're describing, but organizations with "brownfield products" struggle to achieve hypothetically possible outcomes of highly impactful features which could or should be "two day projects" and instead turn them into multi-month projects which might go nowhere.
It's a hard problem to solve for, but I feel like people think that when people think "what can get done in a very short amount of time" they usually think about brand new projects whereas I think the focus on existing ecosystems is where the opportunity is.
Ahh, yeah makes sense!
And the emphasis on making it for scale also stretches the timeline by a fair bit!
Focusing on existing ecosystem is I feel more of an ego issue (problem not sexy enough, can't get promoted) 😅