Quantify the Cost of Inaction and wield the Scope Knife against gold-plating.

In Lesson 2.7 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. A way to size the real cost of doing nothing and a kill-criterion that stops scope creep.

What you'll take away

- Cost of Inaction

- Sizing the status quo

- The Scope Knife

Chapters

(0:00) Cold open & the promise

(4:44) Cost of Inaction

(9:28) Sizing the status quo

(14:12) The Scope Knife

(18:56) Anti-gold-plating

(23:40) The kill-criterion

(28:24) The artifact & what to do Monday

Study guide, slide deck, blog companion, infographic (free)

- https://fde.goodcombinator.ai/lessons/FDE_Lesson_2_7

Audio companion is AI-narrated using NotebookLM. Explainer video is human-produced.

Public release

This full FDE Certification audio lesson is available publicly as part of GROW by Good Combinator.

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Episode metadata

Show: GROW by Good Combinator

Course: Course 2 - Discovery & Communication

Lesson: 2.7

Season/Episode: 2/7

Runtime: 33:09

Access label: public-full-lesson

Source channel: spotify

Source audio: app/lessons/assets/course-2/2.7/2.7 Deep Dive Audio.m4a

Taxonomy: Domain=Discovery & Communication; Career stage=Junior FDE; Skill level=Foundations; Asset type=Lesson; Outcome=Communicate

CRM events: course_started, lesson_completed, cert_enrolled

Transcript and accessibility

Final transcript required before launch: https://goodcombinator.com/grow/courses/course-2/lesson-2.7/transcript

Accessibility requirement: reviewed audio, clear title, descriptive show notes, and transcript availability before launch.

Audio companion is AI-narrated using NotebookLM and disclosed here.

Credits

Host: Doug Liles

Producer: Good Combinator

Audio: NotebookLM AI narration (disclosed)