Emergency Room staff are perfectly capable of putting 200+ items on a physical board. Not writing tasks down because it's too time consuming doesn't result in a more manageable workload of tasks, it results in people trying to remember and forgetting.
One of the big benefits of a physical kanban board is that the limited space means people only write down the stuff they really care to keep track of. For me it has never resulted in people forgetting anything important. It means they don't write down the unimportant stuff.
It's possible that some people would write down a lot of trivia or fantasy features, especially to start. The best response to that is to let them write the cards and then sort them according to actual priorities. But I've never seen anybody persist in that behavior very long. If they do, I think it's a sign of organization problems that tools can at best mask, never fix.
I think this can also be true of virtual kanban boards (e.g., GitHub's kanban view) if you keep people focused on the kanban view. Then they learn to focus on what's being worked on and the near-term to-do list. You can have a backlog column and let people fill it up as much as they want, but as long as you groom the top 20 cards or so to be your actual current priorities, people eventually adapt.
For software development that's perfectly fine, and probably leads to less bloat etc., but in the example given it's an Emergency Room. "Make sure patent X gets operation Y" is a bit more important than "More rounded corners?". I know these are bad Kanban tasks but in some jobs you just aren't allowed to miss and just do the things "really care to keep track of". The other stuff is important too.
Tbf Jira is great, you just need a project manager with good opinions that sets it up and maintains it well. It turns out project management is a real skill and not a hat you put on the owner's less favourite sons.
Jira excels when there is a Jira governance committee comprised of people who actually understand data flow and are the only ones with admin privileges.
Too often some manager asks for (and is given) admin access and starts “improving” things.
Sure, anybody can create custom fields and screens and slap together a janky “workflow”, but well-oiled Jira Ops prevent an explosion of custom fields, they curate the create, browse and edit screens of each issue type to only show the fields that are important at that stage, use custom screens on workflow transitions along with validators and conditions to help ensure an issue is always in a reasonable state, etc. Then users don’t complain about the tooling.
But Jira governance takes time, effort, discussions with stakeholders, etc. And without it Jira gets a bad rap.
Jira excels when there is a Jira governance committee
True but oversimplified. Without a Jira administrative state, along with of course democratically elected Jira executive and legislature and a duly appointed Jira Supreme Court, Jira governance committees over time tend to slide into self-dealing, tyranny and eventually mass executions of anti-Jira resistance factions.
Sustaining Jira regime legitimacy over time is far more involved than simply a governance committee with its stakeholder discussions and five year plans for new custom fields.
My current company has company managed boards, 6000 devs and we have about 250 custom fields. I work in a research team and we only need Kanban and I can't change the issue type if something is created. Hell.
Jira's UX is crap. Try Linear.app, which is truly great software, equally appreciated by both software engineers and project/product managers using it.
Is this an ad? I've never heard of this and the website tries really hard to be an Apple product launch instead of showing what the tool looks like with 200 tasks on the board.
I've used it at previous places of work. It's nice. Snappier and better looking than Jira at least. One of the previous advantages of using it is that everything has a keyboard shortcut, so if you learned that you could be very efficient with it. Nowadays, however, when an LLM is shuffling my tickets around, that feature is kind of useless and I'd probably prefer Jira simply because they integrate with everything under the sun
Not an ad at all. I've been using Linear for the past 4 years. Been using Jira, Trello, GitHub Issues, and other issue trackers before. Linear is simply incredibly better compared to Jira. I had tons of colleagues in my current team and former teams who were skeptical at first, tried it, and 2 weeks later wre saying they would never come back to Jira. I've seen many similar comments here on HN over the past few years.
People can sell me layers ontop of JIRA but you can't position yourself to replace it, too much already integrates with JIRA and if you're not a startup then its a political cliff edge to try to make a case to replace JIRA.
I will say, casual users don't really care. Pretty much any combination of a wall plug and a cable will charge a phone at acceptable speeds, and that's all 99% of people need.
Prohibition will work exceptionally well for social media, which relies on a herd effect. If you can't send most of your friends memes on Instagram, you're a lot less likely to spend time on it.
> When posting job openings, you will always have to beat around the bush, without using direct language. And only then, when the candidate has already agreed to an interview or even after it, do you tell them what kind of content they will be working with every day.
> Employees join such projects for various reasons. Some realize that the pay is better than in legitimate projects. Others come because they couldn’t find a job where they wanted to, or because they are simply interested in working on something forbidden. And then a good company saving the world will come along and offer them a job, and they’ll leave. Building a stable team from people with this kind of motivation is hard.
I think OP made this whole article up. Everyone that applies for Aylo knows exactly what they're applying for. The pay is below-average because (a) there's not actually a lot of money in porn and (b) there's no shortage of dudes that want to work in it.
Had a recruiter reach out to me the other day from a sports gambling website (one of the major ones, as reputable as you can get in this industry). I heard them out, thinking they would offer above market rate but in actuality, they offered significantly below market rate.
Employment at a below market rate might be the only job some people can get due to events in their past i.e someone with a criminal record that puts most employers out of reach.
There is a large talent pool who want to get their lives back on track.
Here where I live gambling ("betting") companies offer salaries above market average, but it's been always a hard pass for me.
I wouldn't care if my company was working in adult industry - I was working in a condom factory for a short while and the employees were some of the funniest, chillest people I worked with, with sex-related themes always somewhere in the context, but that was making everyone relaxed and genuinely nice. I'd expect porn tech company to be similar.
Thanks for reading! When writing this essay, I drew solely on my own experience. I’ve often noticed that startups post job listings with misleading job descriptions, especially in stigmatized industries. It’s only after the interview that they reveal what the work will actually entail. Perhaps you simply haven’t noticed such job listings.
Try Charm Crush first, it's a native binary. If it's unbearable, try opencode, just with the knowledge your system will probably be pwned soon since it's JS + NPM + vibe coding + some of the most insufferable devs in the industry behind that product.
If you're feeling frisky, Zed has a decent agent harness and a very good editor.
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