Pragmatic Process

The problem

1. Product managers want to plan what is coming up and be aware of the development's progress.
2. Developers want to build and see progress tracking as wasting time / necessary evil.

The existing solutions

1. Have developers manually track progress and move tickets around in a dashboard.
2. Have developers spend time and effort to automate the process, for automation to break as soon as something changes (tool, process, etc.)

Both solutions are popular, yet they create unhappy employees 😭 and waste a lot of resources ⏱💸.

A better solution

1. Use a simple, pragmatic, and efficient software development process.
2. With a defined software development process, use a project management tool with working out-of-the-box automation.

Benefits

1. ⏱💸 No resources wasted building and maintaining automation.
2. 🗓📊 Project status is always automatically updated.
3. 😁 Happy developers: can focus on building instead of moving cards around.
4. 😁 Happy product managers: always know the development's progress and no longer fight with developers to update their status.