It's a hard problem to solve: getting to some useful amount of "done" where it solves actual problems for customers is a long way from delivering a truly polished, quality product.
There's diminishing returns from 80% to 100% done, plus there's the human condition--it's a lot more fun to solve the hard problems than do the polishing at the end. I think that teams can get too enamored of the features they create, it's hard to get perspective when you've been staring at something for a while.
I've often wondered if the answer is to have multiple teams (pods) so that one team can get a feature to MVP, then hand it over. You're then not invested in "your" product, there's space to be objective and revisit the path from MVP onward.
There's diminishing returns from 80% to 100% done, plus there's the human condition--it's a lot more fun to solve the hard problems than do the polishing at the end. I think that teams can get too enamored of the features they create, it's hard to get perspective when you've been staring at something for a while.
I've often wondered if the answer is to have multiple teams (pods) so that one team can get a feature to MVP, then hand it over. You're then not invested in "your" product, there's space to be objective and revisit the path from MVP onward.