Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by douche on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:53PM
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Yup. I don't know how many times we've shoe-horned in a feature because it is a "must-have" for some prospective customer, and they either don't end up purchasing, or they purchase, but the must-have feature never gets used. It lingers on, forever, in ratty old functions and crufted-up database tables, and cognitive load.
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I've been at a few companies that have failed because they were letting customers design their product. As in sales reps would meet with customers who would buy the product if we added x, y and z which they found absolutely critical.
Customers don't have to consider things like applicability to other customers, stability, performance or maintenance.