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Balance quality and delivery

Separate the release baseline from improvements that can follow.

Steve JobsAnalytical perspectiveSJ-P04

The method

Balance quality and delivery

Separate the release baseline from improvements that can follow.

When to use it

• The pursuit of perfection is blocking delivery.

Ask yourself

• Should we launch before everything is perfect?

Put it into action

• List the experience and safety baseline for this release and the time needed for further improvement.
• Compare waiting, a controlled launch and staged improvements; schedule a review.

Keep these limits in mind

• Iteration is not a reason to lower safety, reliability or promised experience baselines.
• A personal admission of excessive idealism does not prove that launching sooner always wins.

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