Don't fall into the evil ‘features’ trap

In a house sometimes you have a bowl of fruit, whether it's in the living room, in the kitchen, on the dining table.
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You have a bowl of fruit with apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, all sorts of kind of fruits on there.
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What you would do is go and get a fruit, let's just say an apple.
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You walk away and you quench that need to have that apple and you're happy and content and away you go.
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What you don't do is go and take the apple, bite it in half, unless you're like a four or five year old kid, right?
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You ain't biting it, putting it down, taking a satsuma, taking one piece, eating it, putting it down, or worse, eating all of it.
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And then you sit down and then you have a bellyache after some time.
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Well, that bellyache is similar to having an app with a bunch of features, bunch of different fruits,
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and you use all of the fruit and then you're getting a headache, bellyache with the fruit, a headache with using too many features in an app.
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Well, you can't do anything. You're just stuck, bloated, got a headache, can't see the wood from the trees or whatever the saying is.
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There's no reason to use all the features of an app for what you want to do just because it's there,
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just because the fruit bowl is there and there's lots of different fruits in there.
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You wouldn't take all of it. So why would you use a bunch of features in an app that you think that you need?
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When I work with some clients, what they do is they go away, get the software, and they don't map out what they want the software to do.
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So just start using it and then pull the different features they have into their workflow,
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which they don't actually need because they haven't really decided what the workflow should be.
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The problem is that you need to understand what your workflow is before you pick the tool.
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I've said this many times, but even if you once you've picked that tool, stick with your workflow.
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Don't go, oh, this has got that feature. I want to use it. I want is completely different to I need.
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I want an apple and an orange and a banana and grapes, but I actually only need an apple.
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And I want to eat the whole apple and make sure I understand what that apple does,
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what that one feature does before I go and get the grapes and the other stuff and whatever.
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You don't want to get a headache eating or using all of these features.
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I've still got the fruit bowl in my head headache by using all of these features because you get nothing done.
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You waste your time trying to make it.
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You're trying to shoehorn it into your system where it won't work.
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And then you ask a consultant to come in to help you organize it.
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But it's such a mess that you have to go through and start all over again.
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But then it's going to cost you a lot more money because you've got to do it all over again.
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So don't just use all the features. Don't just eat the whole fruit bowl.
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Pick the one that you need. Pick the feature that you need. Work with it.
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If you need another feature, get it. It will start using it.
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But like I mean, Asana is one of those tools.
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Actually, yesterday I was having a call with someone and they basically told me you shouldn't be using all of the tools,
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which is obviously true. And this client was using everything.
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I had to go in there and create different workflows to figure it out, which luckily in this case,
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it didn't take too long, but I've had nightmare scenarios where I've had to go in and clean absolutely everything.
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Work from your original workflow. Do a strategy. Figure out the workflow.
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Then use the features. Don't just use the features willy nilly.
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Otherwise you get a fat belly and a bellyache and then you won't want to do any work with that tool.
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Anyway, hopefully that helps. If you need me, you know where to find me.
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Have a great day. I'll see you in the next one. Ciao.
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