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That’s what I call solution hoarding.

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

Adding features (and complexity) makes your program less appealing, not more. Software systems exist to solve a problem. Anything that's not laser-focused on the solution is an annoyance, and building that cruft is worse than money down a hole. It can lose us customers. 1/2

Allen Holub

@allenholub.bsky.social

Solution hoarding? Please explain. Excess features are solution hiding, not hoarding.

Max Chernyak

@max.engineer

I’m agreeing with your post, but I’m saying that every half baked thought is now getting built and you end up with a clutter of solutions. It’s like living in a digital hoarder house, features and apps are everywhere, not so much real uses. The backlog that shouldn’t have existed got built instead.

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Allen Holub

@allenholub.bsky.social

Too true. Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill all available time) is at work, here.