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- New features help close sales.

- New features also add tech debt, complexity, cost, bugs, makes you slower, and will lose you some sales that way.

- At 0 features you really need to implement features instead of messing about with the bugs in the devops scripts.

- At e.g. Windows scale, maybe stop messing about with new features nobody asked for and fix some bugs, yes.

- In a Laffer-curve-like effect, there must be a point where it peaks and it's better to fix bugs than to implement a new feature.

- It's a very difficult to identify where you are in the curve.

- One of the measures is simple "do X, get money from this guy I have on the phone"

- The other measure is fuzzy, lags, is subjective, can't be traced to a particular feature.

Good luck!



I like the curve idea. Makes sense.

When customers aren't signing up because of lacking feature -> build features. When customers are churning because of bugs -> fix bugs. Else -> somewhere in the middle




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