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Issue tracking is dead – Linear

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The next era of product development is built on context and agency. Here's how Linear is evolving. And what we're launching today.

It was built for a handoff model of software development. A PM scoped the work, engineers picked it up later, and the system filled with prioritization, negotiation, and workflows to bridge the gap. That ceremony came from real constraints. Engineering time was scarce. Teams needed a way to route work carefully across roles and functions. But over time, complexity started to look like sophistication. The more process a system could absorb, the more advanced it seemed. Overhead kept growing, and the process became the work. Linear has always been built on the opposite belief: the best…

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