alt Hacker NewsI agree, but I think you've not understood what the reply above is saying.
You will never get the chance of "customers requesting changes" if you never ship.
The company with the janky code that shipped will. And they will iterate and get better - as described by your process.
> You will never get the chance of "customers requesting changes" if you never ship.
Why does good code imply never shipping?
Managers and Developers have different thresholds for “good enough to release”. The former are not the one on call for bugs or the one that get blamed for outage, but they are the ones that get praised when projects are completed quickly. Anything that’s past demo level is good for them.