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Agree mostly. Jira is a nightmare. Sprints are pointless. But the backlog is useful. I find it amazing how what seems like a great idea when I think of it look
by marcus_holmes 4y ago
Agree mostly. Jira is a nightmare. Sprints are pointless.
But the backlog is useful. I find it amazing how what seems like a great idea when I think of it looks utterly pointless when I see it still on the backlog 3 months later. It's a useful tool to deal with our tendency to fall in love with our ideas.
- d23 4y agoI don’t think backlogs are bad. The notion they’ll ever be fully groomed or in control is the pernicious fiction that makes people do weeks of useless busy work to get themselves back to the same place: a massive unwieldy backlog.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoAgree completely. the idea of a backlog as a neat list of things we're definitely going to do someday is crazy ;) They're a holding pen for ideas. The good ideas get implemented immediately, the bad ones get deleted. And there's a huge middle ground of "yeah, I guess we could do that, but it's not urgent and there's other stuff to do first" that lasts forever.