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Why I Am Now Relaxed About Releasing Buggy Software

I am a perfectionist by nature. Releasing software in to the wild that has imperfections annoys me. For that matter, doing anything that is imperfect annoys me. Thankfully, there is this little thi…

I was so adamantly opposed to finishing the release, albeit internally as I certainly was not going to publicly stand in front of a moving locomotive to try and stop it, that it put me in a very negative and unproductive mood. In short here is what I learned from that conversation – it is not up to me in the role of an engineer of an organization that finds itself in a rapid business climate to worry about the risks associated with releasing software in a certain state. Our strive for creating something and moving it as close to perfection as we humanely can under realistic constraints is still the impetus driving us as software engineers – that will never be taken away regardless of how soon or how unready our released product is when others see it.

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