We made a list.
It wasn't a polite list. Here it is, mostly as we wrote it, with what we built instead of each thing on it.
Every team we've been on had the same problem. Somebody ended up being the project manager, and it was usually the person who should have been building. The plan lived in their head. It went stale the day it was written. Nobody trusted the date. So we wrote down everything we hate about how work gets managed.
| What we hate | Why | What we built instead |
|---|---|---|
| Bus numbers of one. | When the project lives in one person's head, the project is one flu away from stopping. | Bites anyone could take. Every bite is written so somebody else could take it, and Nib flags one that's too vague for anyone else to start. |
| Being told what to do. | Good people don't need a ticket with their name on it. They need to see what matters and take it. | Work is pulled, never pushed. People take bites. Nobody assigns them, and Nib never does. |
| Setup BS. | If a tool needs a two-week rollout and a workflow designer, it's already lost. | Four states and a sample to start from. A bite is open, taken, blocked or done. There's nothing to configure. |
| Out-of-band everything. | Decisions made in DMs are decisions nobody else can find. | One plan everyone sees, with a log of what moved the date and why. There's no private version for the people upstairs. |
| Project management as a job that eats people. | Leading is a job. Building is a job. Babysitting a Gantt chart shouldn't be. | A thin Skeleton. Leaders set the milestones and the date they aim for. The plan re-flows on its own as the team moves. |
| Sink-or-swim onboarding. | Day one should come with context, not a scavenger hunt. | The ready line. A new person opens their Focus list and sees what can start today, and which of it matters most to the date. |
| "On the clock"‑ism. | Nobody should be valued by how long their status light is green. | Credit for what you ship. No time tracking, no utilization, no percentages. Ever. |
Then we built the opposite.
Plans owned by the people doing the work. Bites small and clear enough that anyone could take one. An agent that shows its reasoning and never tells anyone what to do. Credit for what you ship, not the hours you log.
Plannibble is that list, turned inside out.
Where we're headed.
Today Plannibble plans one team's work. That's the first milestone. The other two are what we're building toward, and neither is in the product yet.
The team owns the plan.
In the product today
Leaders set the Skeleton, the team fills it with bites, and the date stays honest without anyone doing PM as a job.
Open bites find people.
Lands after the first · no date yet
A bite your team can't get to could reach someone elsewhere in the company with room on their plate, who has done that kind of work before.
The API for getting things done.
Lands after the second · no date yet
Contractors, other companies' people and agents take well-defined bites, and everyone who helped shares the credit.