Strategies to approaching project development

In this letter, each of the questions revolve around having a strategy for approaching project development. And in this chapter, I'm going to walk through an answer for each question.

Planning a feature from start to end

The first question from our developer Christian asks:

"How do you approach building features when you don't know the scope exactly?"

This is a great question. As helpful as it would be to have a clearly defined scope from the beginning of the project, it rarely ever happens. And even if you were given a perfectly crafted project scope, it would most likely change during some stage of development. This would essentially render the scope pointless anyways. In our developer's (Christian) ...

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