Finally finished a 2-month long project in 3 days after they cut the deadline

Had a client in Denver move a launch up from June 1st to May 15th, so I pulled two all-nighters and actually got the whole site rebuild done. The difference was I stopped re-checking every little detail and just shipped the version that was 90% there. It went live this morning and they already sent a thank you note, no complaints. Has anyone else found that a forced shorter timeline actually kills your perfectionism?

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fisher.jessica12d ago

Trust the 80/20 rule on client work. That last 10 percent of polish usually eats up half the time anyway, and most people never notice it unless they are looking for it. I started timing how long each "final check" pass actually takes and realized I was spending whole afternoons fixing things that had broken nothing in the first place. Next time, set your own hard stop a few days before the real deadline and see what you actually miss.