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I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the product. I built Beacon (https://anvilyard.com/beacon), to fix this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at play in an organization that affect how teams measure their progress, but I am trying to shape the tools we all use to make it easier to focus on end goals, not just features.

SQL is Agile 14 years ago

More than often, reading the schema is the lowest hanging fruit when you are trying to understand the domain knowledge of a startup. This becomes even more true when the codebase is not that readable. Now this is not an enough of a reason to shy away from NOSQL data stores, but should make you pause and consider what you will be losing when you invest in a schemaless DB.

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