I work mainly in BI. Data mangling, Dashboards for the simple minded, pretty reports, such things. I somewhat like the more informal atmosphere of SMBs and norm

I work mainly in BI. Data mangling, Dashboards for the simple minded, pretty reports, such things. I somewhat like the more informal atmosphere of SMBs and normaly I'm regarded as some strange kind of Wizard (of Oz of course). Thank god, seldom I have to face a Dorothy. More often cowardly lions and Tin Mans. So, I more or less do what I want. And what's right of course. That means, I monitor the user behaviour meticulously and remove unused features without feedback from time to time. In the past I always asked before, but that meant to impose some decision on them and they don't like that. It awakens their bureaucratic white collar sub instinct. Some of them can't even remember such features were requested by them or even used one or two years ago. The timespan I use as a rule of thumb after I make a feature disappear. They can be outright indignant I imply they don't know anymore, what they did or knew. I even had the chutzpah to suggest the feature again some time later. Never had a problem.