“Every new feature you build, on average, increases the value of your product linearly.”
Why do you believe this? It doesn’t match my experience and I don’t think it’s a good way to think about it.
Why do you believe this? It doesn’t match my experience and I don’t think it’s a good way to think about it.
Sure, startups and new products will either go gang busters or broke. But any decently mature product is almost always going for steady incremental improvement based on feedback and market shift. Now, I'm not saying they're achieving that... but that's what a decent PM should be aiming for.
But complexity (particularly if you can't squash dependencies) tends to go up by orders of power as sloppy code grows. I think that's their point.
Second is what you hit on. Some features add exponential or greater value.
This means that the value of new features does not fit a bell curve and reasoning about it with averages is a mistake.