Grant Margison from Information Leadership spoke at a Microsoft Architect session this month in Wellington and made a really good point.
Building software is not about projects that end with deployment, but is about getting new features into orbit.
In other words, the goal is not to deploy, but to add value for users.
This is what ‘release early, release often’ is about. Its not until a feature is deployed and in use that the lifecycle of usage -> improved usability -> improved usefulness -> higher usage -> … begins.
