Killing Your Product with More Features | Maarten Dalmijn | Beyond Coding Podcast

Explore the pitfalls of feature overload with Maarten, as we discuss why less is often more in product development. Learn the value of simplicity in software and how to avoid the common trap of adding too many features.
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OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:26 - Maarten writing a movie script
00:02:41 - Maarten's journey in tech
00:05:19 - The value of staying with domains
00:07:28 - Learning about domains
00:09:16 - Perfect requirements don't exist
00:10:51 - Frankenstein products
00:12:11 - Removing features
00:14:27 - We hate losing stuff
00:16:04 - Simple software is hard
00:18:35 - Rapid A/B testing
00:19:48 - Throwing away code
00:21:01 - Humans are complex
00:22:16 - No one found out when we removed this
00:24:06 - Facilitating conversations
00:26:36 - Do cheap small experiments
00:29:50 - There is no perfect information
00:31:33 - Disagreements and losing someone
00:33:27 - Building trust and changing directions
00:36:33 - Make big decisions fast and early
00:39:49 - Developers like shiny new things
00:42:11 - Feature-complete and clean up
00:44:34 - The best code, is no code
00:46:25 - Cleaning up is part of the job
00:47:47 - The dark side of refactoring
00:50:22 - Final thoughts
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[@adkocol]

As always - great podcast! I like subject of reducing features and simplifying things. From my experience I see how difficult it is to admit by management we don't need something what had been built. It requires from management to be mentaly strong, being bold, feel confident and competent... no complexes and showing off.
Overengineering and overcomplicating things is in my view the biggest challenge in the IT world. In the times of big hype around about AI and how brilliant things technology can bring... IT people are trying to catch it up and commit to deliver stuff which is oversized or even impossible to build.
I like term "Occam's razor" and its pricipals transfered to IT product team - Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (eng: Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)

[@BeyondCoding]

Yup! It's very easy and exciting to come up with solutions. More and more, I don't feel like every problem needs a tech solution

[@hamseabdi9025]

Thanks man, I really like it your podcasts.👏

[@BeyondCoding]

Thank you!! 🙏