You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.
When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.
Start at the end and work back.
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
All works of art should begin... at the end.
Work backward from your goal.
I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.
To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
