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How long software development actually takes
Timelines slip for predictable reasons: unclear scope, slow client-side decisions, and third-party integrations behaving differently from their documentation.
Outcomes
- Discovery: two to three weeks
- MVP or focused system: 8 to 16 weeks
- Departmental platform: 4 to 8 months, phased
- Operational core: 9 months upwards, always phased
- Decision latency on your side is the most common delay
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
Can it be faster?+
Parallel teams compress calendar time but increase cost, and coordination overhead has limits.
What causes overruns most often?+
Scope added without change control, and waiting for access to third-party systems.
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