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Field notes from Shriram IT Ventures delivery work on Logistics: Launch Runbook: the constraints that matter, the shortcuts that haunt you, and a checklist we still use.
Who this is for
Use boring technology where the risk is operational. Save novelty for the one wedge that makes the product worth buying.
Decisions that still look smart in 18 months
Teams that write trade-offs down before coding burn fewer sprints when a stakeholder changes their mind mid-build. We keep ADRs short on purpose.
Build checklist we actually use
Ignore the buzzwords. For Logistics: Launch Runbook, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.
Failure modes we keep seeing
Teams that write trade-offs down before coding burn fewer sprints when a stakeholder changes their mind mid-build. We keep ADRs short on purpose.
How we measure rollout
Ignore the buzzwords. For Logistics: Launch Runbook, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.
We update this when delivery patterns change on live client work.