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Steve Loughran: The three rules of feature management

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As anything you implement has to be maintained for all future versions, as it creates expectations downstream, and as new features provide a reason to upgrade, it is important to start off an application with as few as features as possible that people will accept.

This then, is a quick list of the ways to stop new features being added too early

  1. Say "No".
  2. If that doesn't work, say "Later".
  3. When they come back, say "we changed our minds".

This may seem harsh, but it's for everyone's own good


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