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Product Management Economics

5-4: Feature Bloat Calculus & The Sunset Protocol

Quantify the negative carry of unused features and execute deterministic deprecation protocols to recover gross margin.

1 Lessons~45 minSupports Framework: AI Unit Economics

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5. Implementation

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🎯 What You'll Learn

✓ Calculate Feature Negative Carry
✓ Execute The Sunset Protocol
✓ Deprecate zombie features safely

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The Mathematics of Feature Bloat

Every feature added to a codebase incurs a permanent maintenance annuity: bug fixes, security patches, library updates, and cognitive load on engineers.

If a feature is used by 2% of active users but accounts for 15% of support tickets and test suite execution time, it has severe negative carry.

Feature Bloat Calculus quantifies the annual dollar loss of keeping low-utility features alive.

Feature Negative Carry

Annualized maintenance and support cost minus direct revenue attribution.

< $0 indicates value destruction

Zombie Feature Ratio

Percentage of active codebase features with < 5% monthly active user adoption.

< 10% target

📝 Exercise

Run a feature utilization audit to identify candidate capabilities for deprecation.

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Lesson 1: The Mathematics of Feature Bloat

Every feature added to a codebase incurs a permanent maintenance annuity: bug fixes, security patches, library updates, and cognitive load on engineers.If a feature is used by 2% of active users but accounts for 15% of support tickets and test suite execution time, it has severe negative carry.Feature Bloat Calculus quantifies the annual dollar loss of keeping low-utility features alive.

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