In software engineering, “done” can mean very different things depending on the team, the product, and the maturity of the delivery process.

Poll options:

1️⃣ Merged ✅

The code is reviewed, approved, and merged. For some teams, that is the end of the developer’s responsibility.

2️⃣ Clean & Consistent for next 🧹

The work is not only merged, but also clean, consistent, documented enough, and easy for the next developer to continue.

3️⃣ In production 🚀

Nothing is truly done until users can benefit from it in production, with monitoring and feedback.

4️⃣ It depends 🤷‍

Context matters: internal tool, critical system, MVP, refactoring, experiment, regulated domain… the definition of done should fit the risk.

As Joshua Bloch says:

“APIs should be easy to use and hard to misuse.”

Maybe the same applies to our codebase: done should not only mean finished today, but maintainable tomorrow.

So… when is “done” really done for you?

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