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The final 10%

Posted on 27 May 2008

by Robin Fisher

The final 10% is always the hardest bit to do. Unfortunately, it’s generally that bit that makes something really work. It stops something being OK and makes it great. It makes you go “Wow”.

On my coffee application (I still don’t have a name apart from wanna coffee?, which I don’t like), the majority of the functionality is there. In its most basic form, the app works. It just doesn’t have that polish and that is what I’m talking about. That is the final 10% and I wouldn’t be happy launching it without that polish. I’m happy if some areas of functionality are not present at launch, provided they are not core to the purpose.

What I don’t want to do is launch at 90% of what I want, and would expect, version 1 to be like. It’s that 10% that I’m working on now.