I really like this advice. One thing I've been taking notice of at my job is just how meaningful the tracker is to our workflow. If things are settled down and

I really like this advice. One thing I've been taking notice of at my job is just how meaningful the tracker is to our workflow. If things are settled down and well-managed, then no meetings are needed, the tracker is a really good representation of the current state of the project, and Shit Gets Done. For awhile when I first joined the team we pounded through sprints and often had a week or more of downtime that we could use to clean up tech debt or play ping pong. It was Amazing. So amazing I ended up having to speak up at meetings telling our nervous team leadership that nothing was going wrong. We were kicking ass and playing more ping pong than everybody else in the company. Now we're still kicking ass, but the management has gone into the shitter. We had a product owner, a team lead, and project manager, then the product owner got pushed out and it's been veritable chaos ever since. If anybody is looking for a Rails ninja, drop me a line.