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A product team's honest account of the ongoing cost every shipped feature adds to engineering, design, support, and the next decision you make. It reframes a dead feature as a tax on all future work, which is the exact point of our short answer. Good for convincing yourself, or a co-founder, that removal is progress.
On Killing It by Killing Features
From HubSpot Product Blog by Daria Marmer 7 min read
- Every feature carries permanent maintenance and support cost
- A rarely used feature can eat a large share of your team's time
- Removing the right things speeds up everything you do next
