Engineering Perfectionism Delays MVP Release Decisions
A technical founder with strong engineering standards struggles to judge when a product is "good enough" to ship, repeatedly finding missing features, edge cases, and technical debt that create overwhelm and delay release, and asks peers how they draw the MVP boundary.
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No Standard Process for Validating a PRD Before Engineering Handoff
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