Using demos as a way of focusing on specific functionality and elevating quality. Presenting your work builds in accountability and reviewing demos provides feedback. Over time, this practice calibrates people around a set of product principles and shared context.
See also:
- In Creative Selection, the author describes a hierarchical process of demos to ultimately be presented to Steve Jobs.
- Being a better judge of early work inoculates you from skepticism is a counter argument for this process to help early ideas develop.
- Engineering management could benefit from more focus on demos than finalized work.