if you're doing it right, its not boring at all. its only boring if the work and the people are meaningless abstractions, which makes moving them around on the

if you're doing it right, its not boring at all. its only boring if the work and the people are meaningless abstractions, which makes moving them around on the board pretty pointless. if they are your people then there are all sorts of opportunities to reorganize what gets done first, and who is working on what, and how it all fits together. you can take a unfocussed seemingly infinite amount of work and turn it into 'if we can just get this seed part done, then the rest can hang off that. jane and timmy, since you are both working adjacent to that piece, and I trust you both to sit down and make it happen - please do that' thats the best part of the job