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I didn't say that (good) product developers should employ bad practice in order to get something out the door.

I meant that product developers know when something is good enough (or "will do for now") whilst IMO software developers want to iterate and iterate to a perfect, elegant solution.

Don't get me wrong, the latter may be the correct choice to take but only when its for a feature that people are actually using.

From a business perspective, a software developer who is sitting on functionality thats "not quite right yet" is the cowboy programmer. But I guess thats just perspectives for ya :-)

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