Write issues not user stories - Linear Method
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At Linear, we don’t write user stories and think they’re an anti-pattern in product development. Here's how we write issues instead.
Method Building Write issues not user stories At Linear, we don’t write user stories and think they’re an anti-pattern in product development. We write short and simple issues that describe the task in plain language instead. The point of writing an issue is to communicate a task. It needs to be clear enough so that the assignee can perform it and also give enough context so that teammates who need to know understand what work is being done. So the goal when writing issues should be to do this as effectively and quickly as possible. Why user stories are obsolete User stories evolved over twe
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