This presentation is a story about how some times you need to throw ideology out of the window to get things done on time.

Imagine the situation:

* You are building a new online marketplace for a huge European company that is the European leader for providing food & materials to Hotels & Restaurants.
* There's 3 months until go-live and the go-live date cannot be changed!
* You have a massive backlog of core features, you have no idea what your core demographic will be, you have no idea of the competency of your suppliers!

What would you de-scope to get your platform live, on time without negatively impacting your customers?

How would you make sure that the company can launch and yet still manage all of the processes required to keep a marketplace running.