It all began at my first info know-how (IT) job, contemporary out of the “I Googled What Scrum Is” academy and able to conquer the world.
The workforce was hip, agile, and armed with all the same old instruments: Jira, Confluence, Slack — you title it. We have been the embodiment of contemporary workflow.
However then there was higher administration.
Think about my shock once I found that our roadmap — a significant doc meant to information our product’s evolution — was managed in… look ahead to it… Excel.
Sure, the identical Excel that haunted your faculty statistics class.
Each two weeks, on Monday mornings (as a result of who doesn’t love Mondays?), our ritual started.
We’d print out an unlimited spreadsheet masking ten merchandise, which spanned throughout ten A4 sheets. The workplace supervisor and I’d then interact in an arts and crafts session, aligning and taping the sheets collectively.
It was like getting ready a ransom notice, however for product options.