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1 Done Means In Production – Not Just Code Complete

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✅ Done Means In Production — Not Just Code Complete 🎥 Episode 1 of 10 — Just Dropped

“If it’s not in the hands of users… it’s not done.” 📦 Writing code? Not done. 🧪 Testing it? Still not done. 📊 Demoing it in a sprint review? You guessed it—not done. ✅ Done means live. ✅ Done means delivering real outcomes. ✅ Done means gathering telemetry from actual users. But too many teams are still celebrating fake finishes—and it’s costing them time, trust, and value.

💡 At NKD Agility, we help teams move beyond task-complete and focus on outcome-complete.

🎯 In this 2-minute video: → We redefine “done” through the lens of real value delivery → Show why unshipped work = zero learning → Call out the difference between “code complete” and “customer usable” Because customers don’t care what you finished. They care what they can use right now.

👇 Watch now. Follow the full 10-part series and let’s redefine what “done” really means. Visit https://www.nkdagility.com  if you want help creating a powerful definition of done for your #productdevelopment teams.

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If it’s not in the hands of users, it’s not done. Writing code isn’t done. Testing code isn’t done. Demoing something in a meeting isn’t done. Done means that the increment is live in production, gathering telemetry, delivering real evidence against real goals.

We help teams shift away from celebrating fake finishes towards shipping actual usable outcomes, because work that isn’t live isn’t learning. And if it isn’t learning, it isn’t delivering value.

Your customers don’t care about completed tasks. They care about what’s available to them right now. If your teams confuse code complete with done, let’s talk about shifting to real value delivery.

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