More Features Will Kill Your Product with Maarten Dalmijn from Beyond Coding

More Features Will Kill Your Product with Maarten Dalmijn

51 minutes Posted Mar 13, 2024 at 3:00 pm.

Intro

Maarten writing a movie script

Maarten's journey in tech

The value of staying with domains

Learning about domains

Perfect requirements don't exist

Frankenstein products

Removing features

We hate losing stuff

Simple software is hard

Rapid A/B testing

Throwing away code

Humans are complex

No one found out when we removed this

Facilitating conversations

Do cheap small experiments

There is no perfect information

Disagreements and losing someone

Building trust and changing directions

Make big decisions fast and early

Developers like shiny new things

Feature-complete and clean up

The best code, is no code

Cleaning up is part of the job

The dark side of refactoring

Final thoughts

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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.

Connect with Maarten Dalmijn:

https://linkedin.com/in/maarten-dalmijn

https://www.dalmyn.com

https://mdalmijn.com

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/suHq92IRqao

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