The Larry Test

«Done has a lot of definitions, depending on where you’re standing in the building. Marketing thinks you’re done the first time they see a working demo. Program managers think you’re done when the deadline arrives. QA thinks they decide when it’s done because they’ve got fancy metrics to define doneness: “No high priority bugs found in the software for a week.” Ok, fine metric, but for engineering, done happens long before all of these definitions.»