When developing software, it’s important to rank your features, as you can’t do everything, & not everything is worth doing. One way to rank features is to categorize them in order of importance using the following three categories:
- Required/Essential/Necessary: Mission critical features that must be present
- Preferred/Conditional: Important features & enhancements that bring better experience & easier management, but can wait until later release if necessary
- Optional/Nice To Have: If resources permit, sure, but otherwise…
Of course, you should also group your features based upon the kinds of features they are. Here’s a suggestion for those groups:
- User experience
- Management
- Security