Don't over complicate stuff. KISS and YAGNI are great, but those are about coding, what about features? Yes, MVP and Lean kind of take care of it, but what about a personality trait? This is the developer skill and curse. As devs we like to solve puzzles, bigger puzzles are more rewarding. So when we think about a feature, we tend to consider every complex case. While this can lead to thoughtful analysis it can also lead to confusion. The most common example is when using the one step auth (aka social networks login), devs tend to think: what if the user doesn't want to use their social network email/name as default for my app? Then rush to add fields in the login. The result is making a 1 step signup into a normal tedious account creation. Solution: just let the user log in and then offered them the edit profile functionality, that is gonna be within the scope of the project anyway. Don't get me wrong, this is not the same than don't understand the feature. An example of that mistake would be a miles tracking app and then the dev wonders: what if the user walk backward? Over complicating stuff is part of our skills, we needed to solve all kind of problems, but it can also become a mess.
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Don't over complicate stuff. KISS and YAGNI are great, but those are about coding, what about features? Yes, MVP and Lean kind of take care of it, but what about a personality trait? This is the developer skill and curse. As devs we like to solve puzzles, bigger puzzles are more rewarding. So when we think about a feature, we tend to consider every complex case. While this can lead to thoughtful analysis it can also lead to confusion. The most common example is when using the one step auth (aka social networks login), devs tend to think: what if the user doesn't want to use their social network email/name as default for my app? Then rush to add fields in the login. The result is making a 1 step signup into a normal tedious account creation. Solution: just let the user log in and then offered them the edit profile functionality, that is gonna be within the scope of the project anyway. Don't get me wrong, this is not the same than don't understand the feature. An example of that mistake would be a miles tracking app and then the dev wonders: what if the user walk backward? Over complicating stuff is part of our skills, we needed to solve all kind of problems, but it can also become a mess.