u/davidmeirlevy

I used to think delays were just resourcing, but a lot of it was ambiguity plus context switching. Once I started enforcing that each Jira/ClickUp/Trello ticket had explicit acceptance criteria, edge cases, and a clear test expectation, the back-and-forth dropped a ton, and dev throughput got predictable. The biggest shift was writing tickets so they were “ticket-to-code” friendly, not “ticket-to-clarification” friendly. We also tried an AI execution approach (Jacob) for some small but real production tasks, and it made the bottlenecks obvious, like where reviews or missing requirements slow everything down. What’s the one template or standard change that most improved your sprint throughput, without adding more meetings?