When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?
Let me guess how your day started.
You opened your laptop, fired up the sprint board, and grabbed the next ticket in the “Ready” column. Maybe it was a small feature. Maybe a bug. Either way, you didn’t write it, you didn’t scope it, and you definitely didn’t question it. Because that’s not how it works here.
We are Ticket-Driven Developers now.
Thinking is out. Throughput is in.
Tickets are moving. Morale is not.
The Anti-Pattern of “Just Do the Ticket”#
At first, it looks like productivity.
Nobody’s blocked. Work is moving. Standups are mercifully short.
But look closer and it’s more like a conveyor belt at a factory that forgot what it’s building. Features ship, bugs creep back in, and the codebase becomes an archaeological dig of short-term fixes and forgotten context.
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