Additionally we were a really small team (4-5 guys) so we couldn’t afford such a waste on bureaucracy. But this took time – and plenty of it, to be honest. How many times we had to look up some particular issue in Google? After finding the solution we could write a new Confluence page, create some comments etc. Those solutions are really great, but we still struggled with the issue of gathering and saving information. We used Jira together with Confluence where we kept our documentation, procedures etc. It was really good, but we just felt like we were missing something. Kanban is about Continuous Improvement (after every iteration during standup we thought about possible improvements to our issues resolving processes), WIP (Work in Progress limiting and metering bottlenecks), time estimations and so on. But time was passing and our workflows were getting more and more complicated. Our Operations interrupt driven workflows were not annoying us anymore as we used goalkeeper (a guy that for a whole week takes care of all interruptions, quick tasks etc so others are able to work on projects and much more specialized issues). Why? We just needed some automation (Jira tasks triggered by monitoring system, integration with some other apps via Jira API). After a few weeks we switched to Jira / Greenhopper (now Jira Agile) instead of classical wall board. It was a really great move – we had our Kanban board hanging on the wall, we met daily & weekly during standups and things started going smoothly. Later on, we decided to follow an evolution (not revolution) approach – so we decided Kanban is the only way (Scrum would be the revolution for us). It was really killing us – we had so many interrupts and context switching, that it was really hard to stay calm and find a couple of minutes to focus on some particular issue or project.īack then I took part in a few agile meetups here in Krakow / Poland ( #omgkrk ftw!) and found that we should switch immediately to Scrum or Kanban. Back then we used classical waterfall approach for our daily tasks & projects. It was a really hard and interesting challenge. When I took over Operations team in Ganymede few years ago I faced the problem of managing our resources, documentation, IT infrastructure, roadmap and ideas. In the rest of this post, I’ll describe all the tools we used, and how WorkFlowy fit in. We used it both for little things that didn’t fit in other systems, and to structure our use of these other tools. WorkFlowy sat above them all, as a meta-management system. We used a lot of software tools on my team at Ganymede. If you’d like to contribute a guest blog post of your own, just email your idea to we work with WorkFlowy It explains how he and his team went through a long series of software tools to help manage their projects, and eventually found WorkFlowy to help manage it all. Just very curious about it.This is a guest blog post by Maciej Lasyk, who used to run operations at the game development company Ganymede. I tried to move from Evernote to a Dynalist+Drive mix, for example, but it didn't work.Īnyways, I would like to know your opinion in terms of having this feature in Evernote. Evernote is a big part of my system but I really miss things like outlining. I have tried countless times to leave Evernote behind but I fail every single time. I really love outlining tools such as these two but I hate being everywhere (it isn't good for my productivity). In this line of thought, I was wondering what anyone else would think of having Dynalist/Workflowy-like outlining capabilities in Evernote's notes. The company should listen to its customer base FOR THEIR OWN SAKE. However, I'm certain that the whole community, especially those who pay for Evernote (as I do), should use its voice online. It seems they stopped caring about improving their product as we haven't seen any significant change in the last few years while other apps are evolving so fast and drastically. Like many of you, I'm kind of disappointed about Evernote as a company.
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