Gotchas & Pitfalls

Scope creep: trying to build too much and delivering nothing complete

Skipping documentation: a project without a README is hard to evaluate and impossible to hand off

Not deploying early: waiting until the last day to deploy usually ends in disaster

Ignoring the web team's needs: building a pipeline that outputs data in a format nobody can use

Single point of failure: one team member holds all the knowledge and the project stalls when they are unavailable

Forgetting to test: a demo that breaks live is worse than a smaller demo that works reliably

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