Hello Dave,
Sorry to hear about the difficulties you have had to experience.
The good news is though that you have gained valuable experience along the way. And not all previous investments will be sunken.
We've got quite an extensive experience in IT project rescuing and I'm sure that we will be able to continue more result-oriented and create a valid concept and implementation of your initial idea and to lead it to it's launch and further evolution.
Unfortunately, this situation has become quite a characteristic for the IT industry.
And there is no way to gather all the contexts that are necessary for the creation of a launch-ready version of the product without engineering qualification.
This qualification always ensures the technical viability of the product, which will not only be ready for the launch, but also will be flexible enough to withstand change requirements that will emerge from the constantly changing market needs, right after the launch.
Product owners embrace certain knowledge only via experience. Well, like most of us. :) And you already have gained it - this is most important.
Best Regards,
Andrei
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