Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. - How I ship projects at big tech companies / HN

see also

• What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can’t?
• My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects / HN - Path to demo: split large project into a path of demoable achievement.
• Things I have not changed my opinion on / HN - 93%, maybe 95.2%, of project managers, could disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency. (this estimate is up from 4 years ago)