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by darethas
3088 days ago
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May I suggest a crazy idea? Ditch it and just see what happens. We are a large organization, and had an end of year crunch so naturally when you need to pinch the absolute most productivity out of your workers, typically process is the first thing that goes. We just had our most productive 2 week sprint in over a year, by a mile. Instead of Jira, we busted out the dusty whiteboard, and used this amazing technology called an expo marker to write down what we were working on and who was working on what. It had amazing visibility too -- our manager could stop by at any time and see with his own eyes what we were working on -- all without having to log in! The best part? We got to ditch the meeting to plan the planning, the planning to plan the week, and the retro to go over the week to start of the next week's meeting to plan the planning. We got back like two entire days, and we didn't have any 9:00 AM context switches when most of us were in the zone already having to give a benign update that could have just been communicated via slack! Some of this is sarcasm and I do understand why managers and leaders reach for Jira, but seriously: Why did we stop using the whiteboard. If you need visibility into this crap, hire someone to do that. You have analysts for your business, why not have an analyst for your tech? It doesn't make us more productive. |
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Because whiteboards aren't visible outside the rooms they're in, and they don't save histories of what was written on them in the past. If your org is scaling beyond a single geographical location, then you need some kind of system to communicate status to stakeholders elsewhere. Email and Slack are nowhere good enough for that; a ticketing system is absolutely vital.