[Bradford] Fw: ✍️ Features Are Like Pets

[Paul Colley]

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 This week's sketchplanation: Features Are Like Pets
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When adding features to a software product it's easy to underestimate the overall time and cost they may take up. To keep the full impact in mind it can be helpful to think of Features As Pets.

 

When I think of Features As Pets it helps me look past the initial cost of designing and developing a feature and consider its full lifecycle. For example:
   
   - you're going to want to tell your users about it
   - you'll want to check it's being used as intended
   - you'll need to support it and check that it works in all different places and fix it when it breaks
   - you may need to work hard to make sure it's compatible with new features you add
   - you may have to return to the code and refactor it to improve performance
   - you may need to upgrade libraries and maintain security patches
   - finally you'll have to decommission it gracefully when it's no longer needed including dealing with data you may have stored

New features are probably one of the key differentiators of your offering compared to others, but it bears a little consideration before adding something — a feature is not just for Christmas.

 

Features Are Like Pets is from the excellent Intercom on Product Management podcast (Apple, Spotify, ebook).

 

Some of my other favourite sketches on software: A release strategy for happier customers, sooner, bugs and releases, yesterday's weather

 

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