Yes and no. External deadlines are often meaningless, but customers are not the only users of the application. Once you release your part and keep developing/d

Yes and no. External deadlines are often meaningless, but customers are not the only users of the application. Once you release your part and keep developing/debugging/polishing your code, your colleagues can move on with their job and so on and so on. As unfortunate and unnatural as this may seem to us programmers, shipping _is_ a feature in professional software development; and, in the quality/time continuum, "something now" beats "all of it tomorrow" in every scenario. PS: I do get that the decision on releasing a product to the public has different constraints in the medical or aeronautical industry than a photo sharing website, still enabling the rest of the organization to move on with their tasks is too often underrated.