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8 years ago

Patience Is a Virtue

At the risk of sounding like a combination of an "I told you so" and a backhanded defense of the development team, the current state of the game is why people really need to relax about releases and t...

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PyrrhusRex

8 years ago

"skywhopper;c-1248362" wrote:
Any non-trivial software project is _always_ late, buggy, and troublesome at first. Always. It's fine to say "you should stick to timelines and fix bugs before release!!" but it's impossible to do both, and no for-profit company (nor its users) will tolerate waiting for perfection. But it turns out that releasing buggy software slightly too early actually helps get the problems fixed sooner, because you _will_ hear about all the bugs once it's released into the world.

I don't think people who haven't worked in the field of software design and QA really appreciate how true this is.