I generally think deploying first and asking questions later is the way to go—when you run in to problems, you get a good opportunity to debug your software dev

I generally think deploying first and asking questions later is the way to go—when you run in to problems, you get a good opportunity to debug your software development processes to try and prevent similar issues down the line. Something’s going to catch fire eventually, and having good processes built up from past experience is a blessing. Deploying something buggy on a Monday is a very different situation from deploying something buggy at 5pm on Friday, though. Most of the time your customers aren’t going to care about getting a feature 3 days early, but your team WILL care that their weekend just got eaten up for no reason.