I think the real challenge is for whoever has final word on the goals to have realistic expectations. They almost never really do. But as someone who often wor

I think the real challenge is for whoever has final word on the goals to have realistic expectations. They almost never really do. But as someone who often works solo or in a very small team, it's obvious that I need to pick the next most important thing and just work on that. It's also clear to me that I don't want an issue tracker or even any separate place to put tasks. Because what happens is then they pile on a bunch of tasks that are lower priority which I have to keep trying to explain that I am ignoring them for now since there are higher priorities. What I prefer is to just have a single text chat channel and a live deployment of the software that updates every few days or week. Then we decide whatever the best priority is and work on that. Having a separate place to put issues and requests encourages indirect communication and creating backlogs that don't add business value and just stress the developers out.