agreed - there's a network effect to various bits working together, and it's not apparent until they're all there. it may be linear progress from "lines of cod

agreed - there's a network effect to various bits working together, and it's not apparent until they're all there. it may be linear progress from "lines of code" or some other metric, but there's a point (or usually a few) at which peoples' perspectives on the project changes. I've hit this a couple times on recent projects, and it's usually tied to some new UI stuff hitting people. Usually, they've seen all the various pieces, but until they can click-click-click through end to end on a process, they don't care, or get frustrated and mentally tune out of that part of the project.