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Part II

Frame

Convert an ambiguous ambition into a small decision you can test.

Example: choose one support issue with accessible data and an agreed definition of successful resolution.

Chapter 3

Decompose and scope

Updated

Choose the smallest valuable change you can evaluate.

Read

  • Forward Deployed Engineering Scoping, generalization, hiring, and customer empathy from a team builder.Focus: Read the customer-workaround example and discussion of generalization. Apply: Write the underlying job, smallest acceptable solution, and conditions that would justify productizing it.
  • The AI-native interview The employer’s published plan, build, review format and a debugging-interview pilot.
  • The Mom Test BookReduce biased learning in customer conversations.Focus: Read for biased feedback, concrete customer conversations, and evidence of commitment. Apply: Rewrite five hypothetical questions and identify the next observable commitment.

Do

  • Rank three candidate projects by value, feasibility, and uncertainty.
  • Write acceptance criteria, dependencies, and a two-week pilot scope.
  • Answer interview question Q01 aloud and review the response guide.

You are done when: A scoped proposal with a baseline, an acceptance test, and a stop condition.