I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by okovooo on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:53AM (#47877278)

Usually, everything is set up "for the manager"—the way they prefer to view the project. As a result, a tool that is supposed to help the team becomes a burden. When you work across multiple teams, the constant filtering and scrolling turn into a nightmare. You waste your energy fighting the interface before you even start working. I believe that one glance at the board should be enough to instantly see where we are, who is overloaded, and what is stuck. That’s why I’m building ooko. To finally make the board a tool for the entire team.

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by darreninthenet on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:40AM (#47908869)

A decent tool could surely define multiple different views of the same information?

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by wpietri on Sunday April 26, 2026 @09:08AM (#47910031)

It could in theory, but purchasing decisions for tools like these are generally made by managers or executives, so they end up being optimized for what those people want. Or, more accurately, what they think they want.

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by dankons on Sunday April 26, 2026 @01:00PM (#47911807)

Plugging the same linear.app mentioned in a different comment -- switched a couple years ago (small team, fed up with general slowness and jank of Jira) and don't want to look back.

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by bonesss on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:07AM (#47918230)

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I have used JetBrains YouTrack in a number of scenarios for that specific ability, multiple simultaneous views/boards for various stakeholders and production pipelines (multi-org and multi-project).

I’d give it an independent recommendation in general, too, as the scripting/querying/commands make many tasks simple. You can tell it was built by programmers for programming project management, in the good way.

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by globular-toast on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:19AM (#47918306)

I got really frustrated with Jira in my company. Getting rid of it completely would have been too lofty a goal, so I looked into how they were using it. Turns out they were mostly just using it wrong. You can have multiple "views" of the same info. I ended up fixing the boards and it mostly works now. It's still crap for various reasons and massively bloated, of course.

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Re:I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how manager... by okovooo on Monday April 27, 2026 @07:07AM (#47920064)

Let's say. But is it good for the team? At a daily meeting, the manager shows the screen of his board and I don't understand where my tasks are on it. I've made personal filters for myself, but it's always difficult to navigate quickly in a meeting when it comes to my field of work

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