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Ready, Fire, Aim

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  Ready, Fire, Aim Working on projects requires making tough choices about what to build and how to go about it. Here are two distinct styles: ✓ Ready, Aim, Fire:   Plan carefully and carry out careful validation. Commit and execute only when you have a high degree of confidence in a direction. ✓ Ready, Fire, Aim :  Jump into development and start executing. This allows you to discover problems quickly and pivot along the way if necessary. Say you’ve built a customer-service chatbot for retailers, and you think it could help restaurants, too. Should you take time to study the restaurant market before starting development, moving slowly but cutting the risk of wasting time and resources? Or jump in right away, moving quickly and accepting a higher risk of pivoting or failing? Both approaches have their advocates, and the best choice depends on the situation. Ready, Aim, Fire  tends to be superior when the cost of execution is high and a study can shed light on how use...