[hillbilly]

How do successful dev teams control "appendage" features? Consensus is time consuming to build.

[damncabbage]

I want to know as well.

My guess is one or two people take charge of the product direction, be they developers, or business development, or whatever.

(I've been on a few teams where one person has taken this Product Manager-esque role, and made sure we don't run off the path and into the Brambles of Indecision.)