Simplicity freaking matters
When it comes to project management it's crazy important to keep things simple. Why? Because a project management tool's whole point is to help people understand the project and what needs to be done. Or better said the whole point of the tool is to bring clarity and a shared understanding of a project. If a project managment tool confuses people, it hasn't done it's job.
There's also the problem of adoption. If the tool becomes a source of stress, not a source of calm, a source of confusion not a source of clarity, then people won't want to use it and they'll use Slack instead, because at least that's fun.
Human brains can only accept so much information. Avoid overwhelm.
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