I used to collapse a lot of different states into one word: done. That made progress sound cleaner than it really was.

The states matter

A draft can be done. A build can pass. A deployment can start. None of those necessarily means the thing reached another person and worked for them.

Shipped is not a feeling. It is an observable state.

A small practice

I now name the state precisely: drafted, tested, deployed, live, delivered, or verified. It is less dramatic and much more useful.