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I saw a great quote on Justin's blog.

So, I guess what I’m saying is, Agile Development works for books as well as for software. Get the product in front of readers early and often, and they’ll work with you to make the perfect product. Deliver once, at the end, and there are bound to be problems, and lots of unhappy customers who, rightfully, can’t understand why the problems existed in the first place.

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In Ship It! we talk about Tracer Bullet Development and how it enables you to have an end-to-end running system very early in your development cycle. The abilty to demo the product and get early feedback, for books and software, is the only way to actually deliver what your customer needs, as opposed to what they asked you to build!