I have a more recent example of this: I knew a Google software engineering team which writes all open bugs for their product on a whiteboard. If you want to tac

I have a more recent example of this: I knew a Google software engineering team which writes all open bugs for their product on a whiteboard. If you want to tackle a bug, you put a post-it note with your name next to it and then go fix it. Nobody is every forcibly assigned to fix a bug (with the exception of security bugs). I think they had it where you could only have one post-it on the board at a time.