Project Boards Decay Faster Than Teams Can Maintain Them
Boards that start clean drift out of alignment with reality as priorities shift, tasks split, and work is postponed, until the tool no longer reflects what the team is actually doing. Restoring trust in the view requires ongoing manual cleanup, which becomes its own overhead. The tool adopted to simplify coordination ends up generating maintenance work of its own.
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