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No, no, a hundred times no. "Am I Making Progress?" is the worst question you can ask yourself. It results in answers like: "I've decided on which web framew
by bigsassy 16y ago
No, no, a hundred times no. "Am I Making Progress?" is the worst question you can ask yourself. It results in answers like:
"I've decided on which web framework to use, so yes."
"My tests now have 100% code coverage, so yes."
"I added a new feature that I think may or may not help 1% of my hypothetical customer base, so yes."
As someone who hasn't launched yet, it's easy to wrap yourself in the security blanket of "progress". But progress that doesn't involve customers paying you more money than yesterday is bullshit.
/me leaves to lock himself in his office until he launches.
- cenedella 16y agoyou're entirely right bigsassy. the very polite woman in my post was definitely making "progess" - progress on her studies to create plans to set a schedule to discuss launching a site. launch, launch, launch, launch. marc
- rokhayakebe 16y agoI think progress means : How many users, pageviews, leads (or whatever other metrics matters to your bottom line) you are adding daily/weekly/monthly.
- keerthi 16y agoand $$$$....
- bryanh 16y agoI totally agree, but we're on different wavelengths here. I've always had the impression that launching was the first thing you did, and progress was what happened after that. And then there is that whole thing about results...
- jayliew 16y agoprogress can be further subdivided into 2 distinct types: - product development progress - market/customer development progress