Feature complete, as long as you add more features

tag(s): #random-thoughts #failures #programming When I wrote about organizations being complex, I touched on the topic of organization sizes: Whether all orgs need to grow, companies in particular, is a different topic. I am firmly of the camp that most of them need the opposite, to stabilize at a small-to-medium size. And they grow more than that because of market/financial reasons, rather than organization health. A few days later I read a post or article (don't remember where, and it seems I didn't save a link) about how software never seems to be done and everyone is constantly adding new features and over-complicating their products. Of course this rang true, it made me think of Zawinski's law. And then I pondered a bit more on it and connected it the passage I quoted above. Speed to market matters, you need a bigger team The title assumes speed to market is always the most important thing, which is questionable. I won't deny that it matters, maybe even that it matters a lot. I…