Sometimes, I get a lot of pressure from clients to build more and more features. There are plenty of people who speak on the perils of, "The Feature Trap." I wanted to try and work out my own way of explaining it, and thought I would share where I wo...

Don’t tell my kids, but we bought an absurd present for Christmas, and I spent a few hours putting it together and hiding it in the attic. It is called a Pickler. As I assembled it, I went through several rapid improvements in my approach to building...

Most product people often struggle to know when they’ve added the right mixture of features and complexity to make a product that customers like. Far more often, they wind up in a situation I call “Feature soup.” The soup has everything you could wan...

Introduction Like many technology organizations, Sysco Foods was embarking on an agile transformation. I was brought in as a consultant after several small-scale transformations completed. The previous transformations involved eight months to year-lo...