How not to prioritize a feature

1 · Ben Balter · June 19, 2017, 4 a.m.
Sometimes great ideas, customer needs, product priorities, and engineering resources just align perfectly. Sometimes a feature is so simple that it makes more sense to just implement than to take the time to prioritize or sequence it. In my experience, those features represent the vast minority of features, and in a world of near-endless possibilities (and limited developer hours), the hardest part of software development is not coming up with features to build, but instead, deciding what featur...