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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

User Pilot

Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. Want to see how Userpilot can help you prevent overengineering?

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Why You Want To Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins with DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy (Pod 633 + Video)

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Monroy admits the product was overengineered and missing some features, but overall, a beautiful piece of work. Tech companies realized that this cloud thing might be for real, but the word on the street was that AWS was too hard and complex for customers to realize its benefits. That’s when OpDemand was born.

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The Secret Power of SaaS and Its Dark Side: All You Need to Know About Power Users (And How to Get More of The Real Ones)

User Pilot

As we’ll see in this blog, the term “power user” is not quite as straightforward as it seems at first. The result: the tail wags the dog and you end up needlessly overengineering the product with features that don’t help you grow. As Roxanne Abercrombie argues in this blog , it’s not those noisy users’ fault.