Ask HN: What sucks in the project management software you use?
There are no organizational queues.  There are only our dreams.<p>So, acknowledge that.  Wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if our project management tools actual admitted each user has their own priorities, and just helped us communicate it clearly?  Every user gets their own queue.  Only that user can modify it.  If the user&#x27;s queue of &quot;up next&quot; tasks is out of sync with what a PM wants, the PM can see that... and they have to <i>go talk to the person</i>.<p>There&#x27;s a core mismatch in current tools between purpose and practical use: <i>we let people use the planning tool as a cudgel in place of real communication</i>.<p>We need to have a shot at fixing that underlying issue.  It&#x27;s this hidden cudgel nature of issue trackers that spawns the more literal problems already mentioned in this thread (e.g. some people <i>always</i> want to add another field to Jira, etc -- which, sidenote, yes, oh my god).  Worshipping the false idol of minimalism by stripping the ability to have custom fields won&#x27;t help.  Instead, redirect energy so there&#x27;s simply no desire to add bureaucratic layers in the first place.  If adding more custom fields won&#x27;t give someone with a micromanagement complex any more power (either illusory or real) to poke your task queue around without communicating, then... why would they make custom fields?  Incentives for bad behavior disappear, and so does the bad behavior.<p>One of the coincidental UX wins of per-user task queues is there&#x27;s an obvious visual place to highlight when one person has too much on their plate, and we can use patterns in the UI to try to help.  Similarly, it gives a FOSS developer a very clear way to say &quot;yes, I care; at the same time, here&#x27;s absolute transparency on the short list of issues I&#x27;m currently moving on.&quot;  On the other hand, one of the commiserate challenges would be ensuring everyone can navigate to the same places in the same way; breaking that symmetry between how different people navigate the tool makes it much more complex for group use.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a tool try this.  Might be a bum idea.  Definitely a little radical.  The UX would be full of new challenges.  I&#x27;d love to see it though, and would definitely be excited to try a system that thinks out of the box.