Description-rich issue rows are competing with the speed of planning views.
Product managers need enough context to prioritize work while dense lists must stay responsive during review.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I scrolled to compare two blockers and the list froze long enough that I lost the thread.”
Diana Svoboda · Product Manager
Runs weekly planning from a large active issue list.
What is at stake
Scroll latency in large issue lists rose from 45 ms to 210 ms after richer descriptions shipped. You have to weigh rendering shortcuts against accurate, real-time issue state.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- rich issue context vs smooth scrolling
- fast remediation vs state correctness
- synthetic benchmarks vs real planning behavior
Why Linear
The product's real-time issue views are where product development teams turn changing work into cycle decisions.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.