Constraints: in My Own Words

…introducing constraints. If a project sponsor asks for 4 features, we give them 2, they want 10 we promise 5. …etc.

This helps us:

• Control feature creep

• Keep scope manageable

• Prevent over-architecting our solutions

• Deliver sooner

• Prevent building features the end users really didn’t need

• Allow for better focus

• Force attention to the “big rocks” of the problem

• Allow for social solutions where technological solutions are not necessary or appropriate (so we’re never the ones suggesting we spam or disable basic browser functions)

• Prevent our tools from becoming solutions looking for problems