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When Good Enough is Good Enough

"MVP- minimum valuable product"- a good enough product that can be shipped

In a 99u.com article on When is Something Good Enough to Ship Keith Frankel outlines five rules for making a decision that a deliverable can be shipped:"

1. It successfully solves the problem, addresses the need, or conveys the message intended.
2. It is clearly and distinctly on brand.
3. The quality of work is consistent with or above the level of previous work.
4. It has been thoroughly yet objectively scrutinized by other qualified individuals.
5. The final decision of preference had been left in the hands of the creator."

First one is obvious.  It will solve a problem successfully.  But what about the second one?  How do you know that it is clearly a brand?  The only way I can answer this is that it is a unique solution that no one else has achieved.

The third rule is that it is at a level that you can accept or have accepted.  But just because you can accept it does the rest of the team and leadership accept it(Rule#4)?

The last rule is to just let it go.  You have to let your baby out.  You have to give it to the world to critique it and hopefully accept it.

Today's question is:
"How do you decide if something is good enough?"