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The technical term for this property is “scale free,” meaning that the thing is basically the same no matter what size it is. This gives you the magic of what I call “scale-free scalability,” meaning you can scale up or down following the same principles independently of where you are scalewise, which is exactly what you want in order to build something huge with ease.
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Product teams understand that what matters is results. Whenever possible, product teams expect to be accountable for outcomes rather than output. But this works only if product teams are given a problem to solve (rather than a particular potential solution to build) and are then empowered to come up with a solution that works.
Let’s fix it: Ask how they currently solve X and how much it costs them to do so. And how much time it takes. Ask them to talk you through what happened the last time X came up. If they haven’t solved the problem, ask why not. Have they tried searching for solutions and found them wanting? Or do they not even care enough to have Googled for it?
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
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