However, quickly delivering a product is not the same as successfully delivering a product.
Internet time is a wonderful thing.
I have seen the concept used as a magic wand to prove why we really didn't have time to develop a specification orplan out development projects. On the other hand, I have seen it applied to improving operational efficiency in significant ways. Early on it became obvious that the protocols upon which the wired Web was built would not work for the early phases of wireless data communications. Engineers at Sun felt they had to use UDP because TCP introduced too much inefficiency. The price of guaranteed delivery in the standard protocols was too high, so instead they built layers on top of UDP to gain the amount of delivery guarantee they needed.