Great work finishing Exercise 1.
Before moving on, complete this reflection as a required output.

Required reflection outputs

  1. Question hindsight
    • What question do you wish you had asked earlier?
    • Why would that question have changed scope, risk, or implementation choices?
  2. Scope brief
    • In-scope MVP outcomes (what you intentionally optimized for)
    • Out-of-scope items you deliberately deferred
    • "Build vs buy vs defer" decision and one-sentence justification
  3. Constraint reflection
    • Top constraints that shaped your decisions (time, team, dependency, data/privacy, technical)
    • Which constraint was most underestimated at first?
    • What tradeoff did you make because of those constraints?
  4. Outcome alignment check
    • Which success criteria were clear before building?
    • Which assumptions were validated, invalidated, or still unknown?
    • If you repeated this exercise, what would you change first?

Test Your Knowledge

Retrieval practice helps solidify learning by actively recalling information. Use this prompt with your AI assistant to quiz yourself on what you've learned.

Please quiz me on exercise 1 using the epicshop MCP server. Call the get_quiz_instructions tool with exerciseNumber "1" to get the quiz instructions, then quiz me one question at a time.

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