Most cost overruns aren't caused by bad development. They're caused by decisions made — or not made — before development started.
The biggest cost amplifiers
- Scope discovered mid-build instead of mid-spec.
- Integrations with poorly documented or rate-limited APIs.
- Permission models that change after the schema is set.
- Data migration from messy legacy sources.
- Compliance requirements added late.
- Stakeholder disagreement that surfaces during UAT.
- Custom infrastructure when SaaS would suffice.
How to defuse them
Surface every one of these during architecture planning — before engineering starts. The cost of finding a problem in a spec is ~1x. In a prototype, ~5x. In production, 50x+. That ratio is why product architecture pays for itself.
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