On the Left Hand: How Feature Prioritization Happens

posted by  winmob (11)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

An old blog entry continues to get requests for us to allow users to move their scroll bars to the left side of the screen.  I’ve forwarded the suggestions on to the appropriate people, but, since I’m not on that team, I don’t actually know what will happen with the feature.  That said, I figured this would be a good example to use in describing a huge part of software development: Feature Prioritization.

Fun vs RealityTo most engineers, the fun part is making stuff.  The reality of our situation, though, is that we’re more constrained by