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Carter Baxter

Some very smart, talented, and creative friends of mine recognized that "herculean tasks" and "sisyphean tasks" seems a bit limiting, so they came up with some more.

I love these and have now collected them:
another.rodeo/tasks/

another.rodeoTasks | Another RodeoHerculean tasks, Sisyphean tasks, what else have ya got?

@tbaxter reminds me of the categories of death march projects from Yourdan

@mzagaja @tbaxter I very much want to bring more Pandoran tasks into the world.

@civicwhitaker @tbaxter Trojan task is the best task. Welp I guess before I can ship this feature I have to update our deployment framework to work on Apple Silicon since I just setup this new laptop and nobody else did it.

@tbaxter I vibe with so many of these so very hard.

I must quibble though: surely a Dionysian task is some absurd project authority figures absolutely do not condone, in service of bringing about a party, i.e. secretly spinning up a chat server on the company file server, diverting the organization's industrial coolant to make ice cream, putting the office coffee maker on the internet.

@tbaxter Odyssean Task: and you'll lose your entire team along the way.

@tbaxter Procrustean task - the estimate is 3 story points, I’ll spend exactly 3 points on it, no matter what

@tbaxter This is gold. I cracked up at Minotian Task.

@tbaxter

I would additionally propose:

- Heisenbergian task: Each of your task re-reads changes your perception of the task

- Trumpian task (sorry, I couldn‘t resist): Each time you vote for it on Jira, a democracy dies somewhere