Welp. Ok, well now my newest worst nightmare is a jira board with tickets for "Iran" and "North Korea" stuck in the wrong column and late-night meetings with "product" about features.
I think this is a key insight with some details: there isn’t an entire shadowy org that operates without jira but there are teams of people, usually small who do amazing things without jira. I imagine the manhattan project ran this way but you still have elite teams like this in every org. Eventually they need to hand it off to a jira crew and that’s unavoidable.
Since it happened, I've said that the “Year of Snowden” turned “It's theoretically possible to backdoor the firmware of a hard drive” (for example), into “Somewhere in the NSA, there's a Kanban board with post-its for each major manufacturer of hard drives, and three of them are already in the 'done' column.”
