If You're Asking When to Kill a Feature, You Already Lost | AA269

If you're asking when to kill a feature, you already lost.

Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Leader Om Patel break down why the "should we kill this feature" is really a trap, why the data won't save you, and why the CEO's pet project survives on rank - not merit. Our promise to you is, by the end, you'll have four questions to ask instead, and a framework for sunsetting features without extra helping of the political seppuku.

Listen or watch as we discuss:
• Why metrics are no good to help decide if/when to kill a feature
• The "pet project" problem: some features survive on executive rank alone
• How portfolio-level is the ONLY level that exposes opportunity cost
• Why "ship it and see" with AI is hope-driven development, but with PR
• The three phases every feature should live in: exploring, exploiting, or sunsetting/expiring

For product managers, team members, and other leaders tired of maintaining features nobody uses but nobody is willing to stick their neck out to deal with...

#ProductManagement #ProductStrategy #TechnicalDebt

Campbell's Law, RICE scoring framework, Lean Startup methodology, AA193 Product Lifecycle Phases, AA141 Minimum Viable Product

LINKS
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arguingagile
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYORmtZRKAeTAE57v3
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agile-podcast/id1568557596

INTRO MUSIC
Toronto Is My Beat
By Whitewolf (Source: https://ccmixter.org/files/whitewolf225/60181)
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