Lived OperationsWhen You Are the Only One Who Knows What Is Going On
You can't take a Friday off because three people would need to text you to keep working. That's not a scheduling problem. That's the whole business running through one head.
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Writes about product state, notifications, and the quiet cost of noisy software. Previously shipped team tools for companies that outgrew their own process.
Lived OperationsYou can't take a Friday off because three people would need to text you to keep working. That's not a scheduling problem. That's the whole business running through one head.
Lived OperationsTwo teams rolled out the same kind of board, watched it drift within a month, and quietly went back to asking people directly — while still paying for the software.