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Thanks for the comment. And I completely agree. Incentives shapes so much of how people work. I tried to capture that in the 3rd bullet, but your comment is more on-point :)

Thanks for your feedback! What about task trackers do you think we fail to articulate very well?

We try to explain how the design of issue trackers fail to address the needs of how best practices of product development are described by certain authors (Marty Cagan, John Cutler, etc.). I think we support everything you mention here, but at the same time removing some of the hurdles that many teams experience in getting an empowered team to work well together.

Thanks for your comment! The main point we wanted to come across is that issue trackers are _not_ designed for best of practice product development practices. Still, teams use the for product development, and there are challenges to that.

Using issue trackers to track bugs is great.

Thanks for your comment! Don't disagree, but issue trackers are mainly designed to make you track (individual) tasks. If you make your issue represent outcomes, we have found that teams often feel like they are trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Your mileage might vary, though :)

Thanks for mentioning us (I'm one of the founders of Kitemaker). Totally agree that keyboard shortcuts, a clean design, and simple navigation should be at the core of every productivity tool, which is why we did that as well.

FWIW, we built Kitemaker to tackle some of the points that the original articles highlights, but of course, our solution is a bit different from the authors. Our basic idea was that each work item should be a collaborative workspaces and allow you to track work at the level of deliverables (which basically is what many would say is the correct level, but AFAIK no issue tracker actually supports).

Also, always curious why you switched to Linear :)

I think this article is a pretty good description of good pm. I’ve both been pm myself and managed teams og pms, and anyone fitting this description would be a great hire.

I don't disagree that there could be a lot more context there, but as a PM myself, the tips are not bad. Just missing the whys.

Hi! Thanks for your comment!

Happy to answer questions about the issue screen! :)

To foster collaboration, we made the description huge (you can write anything from a line to 1 pager, to X pagers there). We also believe that communication contains persistent information and non-persistent information, so we have on the same screen an activity feed with comments (for non-persistent information), next to the description (for jotting down persistent information).

We also have a principle of hiding complexity, so there are not 15 fields to fill in for each issue, a title is enough.

You can also try Kitemaker yourself for free by signing up at www.kitemaker.co