Feature Size and Risk

When you're getting a feature out on your platform, the size of that work is directly proportional with:

• the risk of it not going out in time
• the cost/opportunity cost being higher than expected (if you have variable costs involved)
• the feature having bugs and functional inaccuracies

There are ways to actually deal with this.

During product to engineering hand-off (a multifaceted topic itself), product and engineering can put their heads together to figure out how to bite off deliverable chunks of work. It does take some socratic back-and-forth, and the willingness to sit together in a room. But there is no replacement for the incredible feeling you get for shipping fast and accurate.

You'll be lowering more cortisol and delivering more value to your users than ever before.