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.
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.