
Agile tools became Excel for managers. So I built a gamified Scrum board that lives inside your IDE.
Scrum shouldn't be a reporting chore Here's a pattern I've seen at every company that "does Scrum": Sprint planning is a calendar ritual. The backlog is a graveyard of tickets nobody reads. Daily standups are people reading yesterday's status off a screen while everyone else zones out. And the PM tool? A bloated browser app that takes 8 seconds to load, existing primarily so someone in management can export a burndown chart to a slide deck. The tools aren't built for the people doing the work. They're built for the people watching the work get done. For developers, the workflow is brutal. You're in the zone, deep in your editor, and then you need to update a ticket status. Context-switch to a heavy browser tab, wait for it to load, click through three dropdowns, and by the time you're back in your terminal you've forgotten what you were doing. I got tired of it. So I built something different. What I built: Lasimban (羅針盤) Lasimban means "compass" in Japanese. It's a Scrum-specialized t
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