🌅 Why optimizing the user release experience early is so important

With Release First, the goal is to optimize the Big Blue Button (make it easy for users to use a release) early. Why is this important? There are many reasons, but the most important is so that users actually use the release and provide needed feedback early.

Without optimizing the release experience early (when the circle is small), developers soon become inundated with support issues as the circle grows. Pretty soon the developers are doing nothing but support. Optimizing the user experience early enables scaling.

Fix things early, when the stakes are low, not after the BIG 1.0 Release.