Re:Project Management Software Can't Save You
by nrr on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:48PM
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This workflow rocks and is basically the same one I try to use whenever I'm shoehorned into project management. I'm always the weird guy with the index cards and tape and string. (:
> Issue tracking is pretty orthogonal to project management, unless it identifies unplanned tasks out of the expected workflow. Issue tracking is usually much finer grained than project tasks.
FWIW, I tend to punt on even having an issue tracker at all. I find that it winds up being a depository for people to dump things that seldom get looked at, and absent tools to trim and prune the issues for me, it turns out that bubbling these things up as failing integration or acceptance tests is often a better use of time.
> Issue tracking is pretty orthogonal to project management, unless it identifies unplanned tasks out of the expected workflow. Issue tracking is usually much finer grained than project tasks.
FWIW, I tend to punt on even having an issue tracker at all. I find that it winds up being a depository for people to dump things that seldom get looked at, and absent tools to trim and prune the issues for me, it turns out that bubbling these things up as failing integration or acceptance tests is often a better use of time.