# What Doesn't Need to Be Done

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## What Jamie wrote

This is the key to actually shipping your software and product.

> While that’s all very important, I’ve found there’s a second set of things that also matter, but tend to fly under the radar: the things that don’t need to be done.
> 
> Of course, we’re not in this to do the minimum. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
> 
> But if it’s worth doing, it’s also worth finishing. And to finish, you eventually need to buckle down, simplify, and stop doing the stuff that doesn’t need to be done.

When you hear that software ships with a number of known bugs or things still to do, those are the things that don't need to be done now.

## Facts

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