The Story Behind It

Built by someone who
got tired of drifting.

Driftless started as a tool to get time back. It turned into something that changed how the whole job felt.

I have been a Scrum Master for a while now and the part I genuinely love is the people. The hard conversations. Sitting with someone while something finally clicks for them. That is the good stuff.

The best Scrum Masters I have ever watched work did not just manage a board or make sure great products got delivered. They grew people. That is the thing that has always stuck with me and the standard I always tried to hold myself to.

"But somewhere along the way, the administrative side of this job started eating the human side alive. Reports. Status updates. Stakeholder requests. By the time I got to the actual coaching part of my day I was already running on empty."

I was showing up to one-on-ones with my head somewhere else entirely. That is not fair to the people counting on me.

So I started building something on the side. Nothing fancy at first. Just trying to get my time back. It connects to the Jira and Rally boards we already use and handles a lot of the stuff that was eating my afternoons so I can actually be present when it matters.

But honestly the thing that caught me off guard the most was what it started showing me inside those boards. Stuff I had walked right past a hundred times. People who were quietly struggling and not saying anything. Little blockers that did not look like a big deal until you realized they had been sitting there for two weeks. The kind of things that are easy to miss when you are juggling everything else and just trying to get through the week.

Once I started seeing those things I could not go back to not seeing them. And I think my teams noticed the difference before I even did.

Why the name

Teams don't fall apart all at once.
They drift.

Not all at once. Just a little bit at a time. One missed conversation. One week where you were too busy. One sprint where everyone put their heads down and ground through it without actually talking.

Until one day you realize you have not had a real conversation with someone on your team in weeks. The work is getting done. The board looks fine. And you have no idea how the people actually are.

I named it Driftless because that is what I wanted to stop doing. Drifting away from the people I was supposed to be helping. The tool is a reminder as much as anything else.

The Founder
Eric Reighard
Senior Scrum Master · Founder, Driftless™

I am a Senior Scrum Master with experience leading agile teams at large enterprises, small startups, and everything between. I built this tool because I was living the problem it solves and could not find anything that actually addressed it.


This tool is built around what happens in real sprint rooms, real one-on-ones, and real conversations with developers and leaders who are trying to do good work and need someone paying attention. Every tool in it comes from a situation I actually faced.


I am still learning. Still testing. If you want to help shape what this becomes, I want to hear from you.

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