Awesome. I'm looking forward to trying this out. As a PM, I currently use Simplenote to jot down quick requests, or file it in JIRA if time allows. Eager to see if this turns me into a superhero.
Also, it's common to perceive that when these small requests fall through the cracks, its due to poor or lack of process or simply a bad PM! But I would argue that, just like processes breakdown with scaling companies, the same happens with PM's, just on a project level. Cognitive overload is real.
> Awesome. I'm looking forward to trying this out. As a PM, I currently use Simplenote to jot down quick requests, or file it in JIRA if time allows. Eager to see if this turns me into a superhero.
As a side note, a JIRA board full of random feature requests in my experience will generally become a patchwork graveyard of backlog feature requests with little to no coherent relationship or roadmap between them.
In my experience, when this occurs, it is then recognized that maintaining a roadmap and list of feature requests works better in a wiki or similar documentation-oriented space through which one can categorize and cross link the feature requests as needed, as well as keep track of information such as how often it has been requested, etc.
This allows for a clean separation between actual planned work that needs to get done and prospective planned work that may never get done, but we want to think about in the context of the rest of the work we may put in the system.
> As a side note, a JIRA board full of random feature requests in my experience will generally become a patchwork graveyard of backlog feature requests with little to no coherent relationship or roadmap between them.
Agreed. The purpose of these "on the fly" tickets is to document the request in real-time, so it's not forgotten. It's critical to return to these tickets to add color and file them into the proper epic.
Thanks! I know that Featmap is not unique in the space, there are a lot of similar products. What I was missing was a free and open sourced tool with just the right feature set. After a couple of months of ambivalence, I decided to scratch my own itch. Would love to get your feedback once you've tried it.
I missed out on this era of Sci-fi. Thanks for sharing! If anyone else has any other suggestions other than the ones linked in this thread, please share :)
Compelling Science Fiction is a modern take on "hard scifi" as a magazine, that also avoids grimdark. I also highly recommend The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's been a long-time staple of speculative fiction.
Some people genuinely are exposed to enough darkness irl that they don’t find enjoyment anymore in stories featuring nuances of misery, gore, and trauma. That’s totally fine.
Nope, it's just explaining there's a demand for non-grimdark work that Compelling Science Fiction's audience can compose of. There's no protection involved. Magazines select works to sell altogether as a product. If CSF's brand is non-grimdark, hard scifi, and they are successful at selling the product that is non-grimdark, hard scifi, then there's an audience interested in buying their work.
I'm not really sure where you get the protecting clause from, or intent. It's just market forces.
NordVPN. As a basic user who would like to have access the web via VPN on mobile and desktop, NordVPN fulfills my needs. I would say that the desktop client is a bit buggy (sometimes logs my username out for no reason). iOS client is solid.
