Features

This is a quote from Peter Sikking’s blog, integrally avaiable here. Great inspiration man, i totally agree with this point of view.

_[snipped...] Instead, they made the necessary choices.When I started working in the mobile phone industry, my colleagues told me that because of the immature market, competitiveness simply meant more features. Ten years later and the industry still has not grown up.

mature on features

This is the point i prefer:

This circle of dependancy is diabolic. Users and features are like children and candy. They never say no, even if stomach pains will surely follow. For developers, it is the easiest thing hand out. New features are a commodity. If you have no clue how to improve your software, you can always add new features.

One cannot achieve iPhone greatness if one is not prepared to make tough choices on which features really matter. This counts for any kind of software.

Re-think this from another point of view: IT market. Everyday people ask for more features they don’t really need.
Ask for better instead !

What’s the point of having a BT integrated device if you’ ll never use it? What’s the point? Immature users? Immature market?

Another point of view: who cares about “emergencies”, we all are “in emergency“. Let’s try to focus on our target instead. We have some planned features, we have scheduled energies and resources; so again: who cares about emergencies… it’s only a distraction from our common goal.

Ask us for a better implementation instead !

Emergencies will kill us all.

 

 

Who knows… maybe we are all kids