Best of Project Management — August 2025

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   Saiyan Growth Letter·42w

   How to be a cracked dev

   A comprehensive guide for developers working in startup environments, emphasizing the importance of technical excellence, strategic thinking, and ownership mentality. Key principles include building extensively to develop skills, prioritizing important work, effective project communication, user engagement, and adopting a founder's mindset. The advice focuses on shipping fast while finding simple solutions, maintaining clear communication channels, and staying connected to users through regular interaction and product usage.

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   The Register·42w

   Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history'

   Atlassian's recent Trello redesign has sparked massive user backlash, with customers calling it one of the worst tech updates in history, comparing it to Windows 8. The May 2025 update changed layouts, fonts, and removed features like card comments, prompting nearly 200 complaint posts on community forums. Users suspect Atlassian is deliberately degrading Trello to push customers toward their more expensive Jira platform, as the company now suggests Jira as a Trello alternative and has stated they're changing Trello into an entirely different product.

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   Chief Suffering Officer·39w

   Over communication

   A discussion about whether over-communication can harm software projects. The author argues that projects fail more often from wrong assumptions than excessive communication, while acknowledging concerns that too much communication might create noise that obscures important signals for engineers.

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   Linear·39w

   How Cursor integrated with Linear for Agents

   Cursor has integrated with Linear to allow teams to assign coding tasks directly to AI agents within their project management workflow. The integration enables agents to take on coding tasks, open pull requests, and update progress back in Linear, with the goal of reducing activation energy for lower-priority work. The integration leverages Linear's agent API with sessions abstraction and provides transparency through agent thoughts and tools. Future enhancements could include automated task assignment based on labels and agent-assisted project planning.

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   The Register·41w

   The plan for Linux after Linus? A work in progress

   Linux kernel development faces an uncertain future regarding leadership succession after Linus Torvalds. While Torvalds believes natural succession will occur through community trust and existing maintainers, the project lacks formal succession planning. Key challenges include overworked maintainers doing unpaid work, commercial pressures from companies like Red Hat, resistance to innovation like Rust adoption, and increasing bug reports from AI tools. The kernel's remarkable stability and global impact make succession planning critical, as hope alone isn't sufficient strategy for such a foundational technology.

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