When work has no baselines, how do you measure productivity and efficiency? And what if you're billing for that time? No answers here, just a thought process.
Sometimes it’s unclear how, if at all, the work you’re doing at a task level is contributing to a final product. One’s productivity might as well be zero, until you find the right route forward. If you were to graph the completion of a task/epic over time, I would venture it is far from linear.
Ever flinched from a green bubble in your iPhone chat? Time to thank Apple to taking SMS hostage, ensuring conformity along the way. I get it - it's tough to leave the Apple ecosystem, but have you considered looking over the walls?