52. Feature Soup
“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,Waiting in a hot tureen!Who for such dainties would not stoop?Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!”
—Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The product sports a superabundance of piecemeal features, many of which do little to address the customer’s real business needs.
It starts innocently. One of the marketing staff has a request from a customer to add an extra pull-down menu. Then a requirement arrives to add an export interface to the product, the product manager wants to include a new analysis report, and the DBA asks for another new field in the database and to change the color of the background. All of these requirements, and many more, are passed to the developers for inclusion ...
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