Very valuable lesson. Put some effort into defining scope and prevent yourself from improving your design as you go. (There may be time for that next time) Kn

Very valuable lesson. Put some effort into defining scope and prevent yourself from improving your design as you go. (There may be time for that next time) Know your platform! If you know exactly how well the different things you need are going to behave you are free to take every shortcut out there. If you're experienced you'll carve out a space for you to return to if you need. i.e. you make things modular where needed. The first iteration should be working code and unless there's time to make improvements you don't. You move on to the next thing.