Linear at Avo

Linear is the project management system for every active Avo client build and for internal roadmap tracking. Each client project gets a dedicated Linear team with an initial triage pass to classify requirements into sprint items, backlog, and out-of-scope. Issues move from triage to active sprint to review to done. The board view gives clients a real-time picture of build progress without requiring access to the code repository.

The sprint structure Avo uses is two-week cycles. Every cycle starts with a planning session that populates the sprint from the backlog, sized by estimated complexity. Cycle retrospectives capture what slowed down delivery and what should change in the next cycle. This is a lightweight version of scrum without the ceremony overhead.

For the Avo Engine build (102 deployable artifacts across 11 Rust clusters and 18 Next.js sites), Linear tracked 200-plus completed tasks across concurrent workstreams. Task claiming used an atomic file-lock system (claim-task.sh, complete-task.sh) to coordinate between parallel AI dispatch agents, but Linear held the canonical issue state.

Internal roadmap items, including the multi-tenant infrastructure wiring and launch blockers, live in a separate Linear project so they do not mix with client delivery work.