You are a Product Manager at a large organisation. Leadership wants a feature that helps small businesses predict cash shortages before payroll. You have eight weeks to discover, decide, and ship.
8 weeks
Every action burns time
Unknown
Discovery will reveal it
Customer Value
How well the product solves a real small-business problem.
Business Value
Strategic value for the organisation. Decays as competitors move.
Risk
Regulatory, technical, and product risk you can see.
Hidden Risk
The cost of skipping discovery. You will not see this until it bites.
Ship too early and adoption suffers. Ship too late and you miss the market.
Hard Mode applies a randomised starting condition, revealed once the simulation begins.