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How do yo limit feature creep?

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coppice:

--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on January 30, 2020, 10:35:23 pm ---More philosophically, when you find yourself planning how to fit another feature in, stop and make some tea and think about what else you could be doing with your most valuable possession ... time.

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I doubt that is an effective strategy. Most feature creep occurs because people think what they are adding will take little time and have great rewards. What people need to do is engage in a more critical assessment of the work needed for each additional feature at the moment the idea comes up.

mc172:
Cram those extra features in and stop worrying about it. If you find yourself worrying about it, become a project manager and crack on with being miserable.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: mc172 on January 31, 2020, 03:37:01 pm ---Cram those extra features in and stop worrying about it. If you find yourself worrying about it, become a project manager and crack on with being miserable.

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 ;D

Or better yet, if you're extra worried about it, become an agile "Scrum Master", make engineers start and stop new things every two weeks for no apparent reason other than the "product owner" decided so, and go sip some beer with the "happiness manager" after the daily scrum and let the engineers become miserable and start wondering why they were even born.

 :-DD

Tomorokoshi:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 31, 2020, 03:58:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: mc172 on January 31, 2020, 03:37:01 pm ---Cram those extra features in and stop worrying about it. If you find yourself worrying about it, become a project manager and crack on with being miserable.

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 ;D

Or better yet, if you're extra worried about it, become an agile "Scrum Master", make engineers start and stop new things every two weeks for no apparent reason other than the "product owner" decided so, and go sip some beer with the "happiness manager" after the daily scrum and let the engineers become miserable and start wondering why they were even born.

 :-DD

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Your post has inspired a new product idea! We could make a new Jira plugin! It would track the enthusiasm and cynicism of engineers over time! It would be called a "Burnout Chart"!

DBecker:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 31, 2020, 03:58:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: mc172 on January 31, 2020, 03:37:01 pm ---Cram those extra features in and stop worrying about it. If you find yourself worrying about it, become a project manager and crack on with being miserable.

--- End quote ---

 ;D

Or better yet, if you're extra worried about it, become an agile "Scrum Master", make engineers start and stop new things every two weeks for no apparent reason other than the "product owner" decided so, and go sip some beer with the "happiness manager" after the daily scrum and let the engineers become miserable and start wondering why they were even born.

 :-DD


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Wait!

So I'm not the only one that thinks Scrums are absurd?
They work if you are implementing a specific new feature that is already enabled by the infrastructure, but make people working on longer-term efforts look unproductive.

Back to the original topic: anything beyond a galena crystal and a nail in an audio system is feature creep.  Based on the number of people listening to crystal radios, feature creep has been solidly in style for well over a century.  Ask anyone if they *really* want to return to a simpler time.

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