http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind Adam DuVander’s thoughts on keeping things simple. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind/comment-page-1#comment-2506 What is Personal Feature Creep? | Simplicity Rules Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:05:14 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind#comment-2506 [...] Rather than additional functionality, personal features are usually commitments we’ve made, or ventures we’ve taken on. In fact, that side project with its own feature creep might be contributing to your personal feature creep. As with creating real products, making your life the way you want involves questioning what’s necessary. [...] [...] Rather than additional functionality, personal features are usually commitments we’ve made, or ventures we’ve taken on. In fact, that side project with its own feature creep might be contributing to your personal feature creep. As with creating real products, making your life the way you want involves questioning what’s necessary. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind/comment-page-1#comment-2406 Blog Software Is No Longer About Blogging | Simplicity Rules Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:23:41 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind#comment-2406 [...] is right that blogging should still be central to the software. Times will always be changing and nice-to-have features will always come along. You have to keep your eye on the original focus, stop feature creep and [...] [...] is right that blogging should still be central to the software. Times will always be changing and nice-to-have features will always come along. You have to keep your eye on the original focus, stop feature creep and [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind/comment-page-1#comment-1924 Josh Heumann Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:01:22 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind#comment-1924 This is one really nice thing about Extreme Programming. <a href="http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/userstories.html" rel="nofollow">User stories</a> make sure that at any time, you're working on something that the customer actually wants. Of course, it's still easy to get off-task when you're following the user stories, and so pair programming provides a handy sanity-check. At any time a pair can say, "yes, that's cool, but does it help us achieve the goal on this card?" This is one really nice thing about Extreme Programming. User stories make sure that at any time, you’re working on something that the customer actually wants. Of course, it’s still easy to get off-task when you’re following the user stories, and so pair programming provides a handy sanity-check. At any time a pair can say, “yes, that’s cool, but does it help us achieve the goal on this card?”

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind/comment-page-1#comment-1923 Simplicity Rules &#187; Designing the Obvious is my new best friend Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:08:09 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/nice-to-have-features-not-so-kind#comment-1923 [...] Nice-to-have Features Not So Kind [...] [...] Nice-to-have Features Not So Kind [...]

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