Must be nice to live in such an alternative universe.
In companies where I've worked, a few Fortune 500 ones included, there is this thing called "budgeting". More formally called AOP, Annual Operating Plan.
Your team, IT department, whichever...gets a budget. For the year. And you're going to tell the owners/accountants what they get for that. And it isn't just going to be "we'll add dark mode", it's going to be tied to bottom-line business metrics like revenue, cost of non-quality, compliance, etc.
Further, this budgeting exercise also reveals cross department dependencies, critical path issues, etc.
Of course, this still doesn't mean that the plan will fully work out, but this idea "let's just not do it or wing it" doesn't really work. At least not in the companies described above, but things are likely much different in well-funded startups.
In companies where I've worked, a few Fortune 500 ones included, there is this thing called "budgeting". More formally called AOP, Annual Operating Plan.
Your team, IT department, whichever...gets a budget. For the year. And you're going to tell the owners/accountants what they get for that. And it isn't just going to be "we'll add dark mode", it's going to be tied to bottom-line business metrics like revenue, cost of non-quality, compliance, etc.
Further, this budgeting exercise also reveals cross department dependencies, critical path issues, etc.
Of course, this still doesn't mean that the plan will fully work out, but this idea "let's just not do it or wing it" doesn't really work. At least not in the companies described above, but things are likely much different in well-funded startups.