Everything is a Nail

As the guys report ramping up their production on OurCompose, they get long-winded talking about Organizational Debt and their new Kanboard setup after taking a dive into Bitwarden's Tools and Reports.

Intro

• Organizational debt is like technical debt - but worse
  • Hiring, Firing and Retiring
• Element raises $30M as Matrix explodes!

News / Community Updates

• Vaultwarden 1.22.2
• Six Years of Bookstack
• Firefly III Vulnerable to “Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts”
• Wordpress 5.8 Tatum

OurCompose Developments

• Portal Logon Page
• Commands Receivable

Integration Discussion - Bitwarden - Tools & Reports

Grab Bag - On Evolving How We Use Our Kanban Boards

Or, An Honest Totally Unbiased Discussion On How Andrew Kicks The Scrum Can Down The Road

Problems We’re Evolving to Solve

• Having a board that lies about the tasks that we’re currently doing and their magnitude
• Not being able to visibly represent progress in a big task
• Lack of focus on the big picture

Metrics: Why Even Complexity?

• Kanboard: where the metrics are made-up and the points don’t matter
• What even is complexity?
  • Non-time-based, which is necessary for knowledge-work
  • Fibonacci sequence
  • Analogous to “Story Points”
• Completed Complexity
  • Per Team, not per person (yet?)
  • Eventually consistent
  • Last Quarter’s Average vs. Weekly Maintenance Tasks

Implementation Mechanisms

• Meetings
  • Priority & Complexity
    • Check for any tasks that have not been assigned a complexity
    • Split & Recomplexitize incomplete tasks
    • Replenish tasks from Backlog for 10 total complexity per person between Improvement/Incident swimlanes
  • Retro & Review
    • Review Completed Complexity report
    • Review completed improvement tasks & their Roadmap parents
    • Review overdue tasks (conversation starter)
• Do due dates do dates well?
  • Grace Period
  • Is there any scenario to not split?
  • Is re-complexitizing recurring tasks subject to forgetting?
    • “I’ll just remember to…”
• Forced upkeep
  • Splitting/Recomplexitizing
  • Reviewing Roadmap & Goals Doc
    • Why do we have a Goals doc?
    • Completed Tasks –> Roadmap task closure during R&R meeting
    • Depleted backlog –> Roadmap for available tasks –> Goals doc for priority

• Starting with a clean slate for the quarter

• Task Linking
  • Roadmap status at-a-glance
  • Why don’t we use any other types other than parent-child?
• What necessitated “Other Assignees”

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