Scene 1 – The Creation
📆 Year: 2026
Quarterly planning concluded.
Confidence was high.
A ticket appeared in the system:
#042 – “Quick Marketing Win”
Description:
- just a landing page
- maybe a banner
- should be fast
Priority: High
Owner: Marketing
( •_•)
The board accepted it.
Scene 2 – The First Movement
The ticket was moved.
Backlog → In Progress
No commit followed.
No branch was created.
🗂️ The description expanded:
“Let’s align on messaging.”
Time passed.
┻━┻︵╰(⊙Д⊙╰)
Sprint velocity remained unchanged.
Scene 3 – The Vanishing Point
Standup, Day 9.
👤 Dev asked:
“What’s the status of #042?”
Silence.
The board refreshed.
#042 → ???
No archive.
No close state.
No delete log.
🧠 The system responded:
WARNING: TICKET_REFERENCE_NOT_FOUND
Scene 4 – Investigation
PM searched the history.
- no comments
- no attachments
- no blame
🐱 DEV Cat observed.
(=ಠ_ಠ=)
“Tickets don’t disappear,” they said.
The system disagreed.
┬──┬︵╰(°□°╰)
Columns realigned themselves.
Scene 5 – Acceptance
A new ticket was created.
#043 – “Follow-up on Marketing Idea”
Priority: Medium.
Scope: unclear.
No one mentioned #042 again.
The sprint ended on time.
Post-Credits Scene
Deep in the audit logs:
event: orphan_cleanup
target: ticket_042
reason: no_owner_detected
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Taglines
“Not all work is done. Some is erased.”
“The campaign never failed. It evaporated.”
“Ticket #042 was not closed. It was forgotten.”
