The feature graveyard
How much of what engineering ships never moves a metric? A live, no-fluff session on reframing unvalidated software bets as burned sprint capacity - not an abstract PM concept - and how to validate before you build.
No spam. One reminder email, then the recording.
- Date
- Oct 13, 6:00pm CET
- Where
- Online, link on signup
- Seats
- Limited to 100
Hosted by Tsvetan Tsvetanov
Tsvetan builds software factories for a living. As a Co-founder at Camplight, he has a pipeline in production at a pharma client where agent-authored changes land in critical paths of the system - and 30 colleagues supporting 15 clients on the strength of that kind of leverage.
What you'll walk away with
How to audit your last two quarters of shipped work for what never actually got validated
The utilization math that explains why busy teams ship more unvalidated work, not less
A pre-build validation checklist you can run in under a week, before a sprint gets committed
How to put a dollar figure on a graveyard feature so it lands with your CFO, not just engineering
30 minutes of content, then live Q&A
- 00:00
The feature graveyard
A live poll first: of the last 20 things your team shipped, how many moved a metric you actually track? Then the tour of where the rest went to die.
- 00:05
The real cost of a dead feature
Reframing a dead feature in sprint-weeks and fully-loaded cost, not just 'a feature nobody used' — the translation that makes it a capital-allocation conversation.
- 00:15
Why 100% utilisation is a harmful goal
The queueing math: as utilization climbs toward 100%, wait time for anything new doesn't rise in a straight line — it blows up. That's why fully-booked teams can't stop to check if anything they're building is worth building.
- 00:25
How to validate before you build
A working loop you can run in a week: rank your idea on importance and certainty, find the cheapest test that could kill it, and score real demand before a line of code gets written.
- 00:30
Live Q&A
Bring your questions about feature validation, roadmap bets, or your own graveyard.
Stop burning sprints on features nobody needs
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