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Size of backlog is inversely proportional to PM turnover. For old PM the backlog is a memory prosthesis of all the old product conversations (a graveyard of br
by xyzzy123 3y ago
Size of backlog is inversely proportional to PM turnover.
For old PM the backlog is a memory prosthesis of all the old product conversations (a graveyard of broken dreams).
New PM will look at backlog in horror "what even is this I don't understand it", declare bankruptcy, "clear all that crap out".
- idopmstuff 3y ago> New PM will look at backlog in horror "what even is this I don't understand it", declare bankruptcy, "clear all that crap out". Especially when all the tickets in the backlog just have 1-2 sentences and can't possibly be understood without the context that lives in the head of the original PM who wrote them.
- isoprophlex 3y agoOh man that cuts deep --- "Redo John's fix for frobulator service" Definition of done: The fix is implemented correctly.
- xyzzy123 3y agoIs it done or isn't it?
- isoprophlex 3y agoWe need another 5 refinement sessions
- Tommah 3y agoReposting my comment from a couple of months ago: At one of my jobs, they used Asana when I started. It was too full of backlogged issues, so we moved over to Jira. Then Jira got too full. A month before I was laid off, one of my coworkers said, "Maybe we should try out Asana."
- esafak 3y agoYou should have just periodically flushed old tickets. Everybody would have been happy, and none the wiser :)
- nolongerthere 3y agoThat is so toxic and just painful to read. Hard to understand how people function like that.
- denkmoon 3y agoI fear to know what “Jira got too full” means but I suspect I’ll find out if I stay in my current workplace long enough.
- winrid 3y agoI don't understand what full means. It is weird being at a place long enough to see ticket 1 and ticket 60k, though.
- throwaway290 3y agoAnd sometimes new and old PM is future & past versions of the same person!