What can you learn when the deadline is tomorrow?
An automated booking and question-answering system for service workers, built inside a day.
The What If
What if the real constraint were the clock rather than the budget or the team?
What made it hard
One day. Not one day of coding on top of an existing system: one day from nothing to something a stranger could use.
What we tried
An automated booking and Q&A system for service workers, scoped down to the parts that had to exist for the idea to be testable at all, then built end to end.
What reality said
A 24-hour deadline is a scoping tool. It forces the question of what actually has to exist for the idea to be judged, which is the same question a Sprint asks with a longer clock.
The decision
GO. It won first place, and the scoping habit outlived the weekend.
Who worked on it
- Wesley StevensSoftware & AI
Sources: Wesley Stevens LinkedIn.
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