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Good-Cheap-Fast

As the saying goes, you can only pick 2:

Cheap and fast won’t be good.

Fast and good won’t be cheap.

Good and cheap won’t be fast.

Of theses I think fast is the most challenging. You can pump a lot of money into something to make it happen faster but it won’t necessarily be good anyways. When it comes to implementing change, time deadlines are important, and budgets are always limited. But going too fast undermines effort and cost.

Systems need time. People need time. And rushing deadlines quickly becomes counterproductive. Faster isn’t always desirable or attainable without sacrificing quality.

This doesn’t mean you can’t launch a beta product that isn’t quite ready. It does mean that nor everyone will be happy with the results. Even a beta product can be rushed and launched too early. It has to be affordable/worthwhile. It has to be be good (enough). It can’t be rushed… there are few things in life that can be rushed and good, no matter how much money is thrown at it.