I have a few problems with TFA, not least of all the fact that properly managed developers don’t generally add features for fun. Neither do marketeers, mostly t

I have a few problems with TFA, not least of all the fact that properly managed developers don’t generally add features for fun. Neither do marketeers, mostly those guys are just trying to interpret signals from their market and perhaps trowel some bait out there. However… It is a brave product manager that declares his product more or less feature-complete. Because it is a far more frightening proposition for a company to begin a new product, perhaps only their 2nd ever, rather than glom-on extras to their first-born. It’s one thing to manage a backlog of features into a product (or to discard them), but quite another to have the clarity of vision for your product that allows you to repeatedly say “no” even in the face of clear customer demand for functionality. Functionality that really belongs in your 2nd app, not your 1st. Even if you as a product manager have that clarity, you’ve then got to get the rest of the company behind you. IMO the only thing harder is getting a company to kill a product that needs killing.