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Agreed. Anything with product liability attached requires careful consideration. Spending extra time and attention on quality can yield dividends in better slee
by ISL 12y ago
Agreed. Anything with product liability attached requires careful consideration. Spending extra time and attention on quality can yield dividends in better sleep at night.
If you operate with a mindset of, "what you ship, you can't take back or modify," you're on the right track. It's in partial conflict with the software ideology of, "build an MVP and iterate fast." You can still do that, but the MVP can't suck.
Source: Shipped a pretty great product, still stay awake at night.
- tomsaffell 12y agoWhen I worked on PC hardware at IBM we operated on the rule that the cost of fixing a problem is 1x development, 10x in testing and 100x once sold to customers. Alas, that was before IBM's PC division was bought by Lenovo...