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Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by naringas »

cyrialize wrote: post #113

I wish I could be off of Jira and all of Atlassian. Sadly, that is not my decision to make. Atlassian's antics with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket have really started to make me mad. Jira is changing it's editor... slowly. The old editor had nice shortcuts, like h1. - h6., {code}, {blockquote} etc. When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor! Thi…

it seems to me that often the people who decide whether to use Atlassian products aren't actually using them personally...

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by nnq »

Aeolun wrote: post #93
lifebeyondfife wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a manager I follow two principles that help me to prioritise tasks for a weekly sprint. First, every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two. So it's not about not trusting the development team. It's about understanding the tradeoffs and how the delivery date will be affected. Second, how well can you predict what you can achieve as a developer in one day vs one hundred days? The estimat…

I’m starting to be fairly confident that the ‘budget’ lever for a project might as well be disconnected from the feature and timeliness ones. Spending more money doesn’t make things go any faster. Especially adding more people makes things fo slower.

It is connected... until the project start, eg. in the broad general planning phase, when you press "start" it gets disconnected and stays that way until you ship a usable (±new) version.

Once the wheels are in motion you can only accelerate by breaking off sub-projects/teams... but if you're at a point where this can accelerate you, it means you were already slow-as-hell :|

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by aaai »

discreteevent wrote: post #50
lifebeyondfife wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a manager I follow two principles that help me to prioritise tasks for a weekly sprint. First, every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two. So it's not about not trusting the development team. It's about understanding the tradeoffs and how the delivery date will be affected. Second, how well can you predict what you can achieve as a developer in one day vs one hundred days? The estimat…

> every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two You forgot about quality. It can blow the other 3 out of the water.

...if you consider quality a lever, you're not the kind of person anyone should want to work with!

You agree on quality standards before you begin, and you deliver the quality level that you agreed beforehand, not more, not less (you deliver sooner if it goes better than expected giving the product-owner ability to add features or redirect effort actually using your "superpowers" if any to give the business a real advantage), at a profit or at a loss. Otherwise you're not a professional, you're either an amateur or maliciously dishonest/exploitative!

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by techcofounder »

Hey Tara team. Ben here from Armory (YC W17). Love that you are tackling this very important problem for product and eng teams. We use JIRA (surprise!) as do all of customers. I've long wished I had the time and energy to think about and maybe even tackle the challenge you are facing - building a JIRA-killer. Go forth and conquer! I would be very happy to help in any way I can!

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by c_e »

dotjosh wrote: post #118

Unless you are going open source, you might not want to ship your typescript sourceMaps in production. https://i.imgur.com/A1tQtVO.png

Shipping source maps allows for better error-reporting instrumentation, and can also be a great help if you need to debug an issue you're not able to reproduce in a local or staging environment.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by virvar »

cyrialize wrote: post #113

I wish I could be off of Jira and all of Atlassian. Sadly, that is not my decision to make. Atlassian's antics with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket have really started to make me mad. Jira is changing it's editor... slowly. The old editor had nice shortcuts, like h1. - h6., {code}, {blockquote} etc. When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor! Thi…

I’ve turned down job offers I was interested in from companies because I found out they use the atlassian stuff, that’s how much I dislike it.

I wonder if I’m the only one.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by RHSeeger »

cyrialize wrote: post #113

I wish I could be off of Jira and all of Atlassian. Sadly, that is not my decision to make. Atlassian's antics with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket have really started to make me mad. Jira is changing it's editor... slowly. The old editor had nice shortcuts, like h1. - h6., {code}, {blockquote} etc. When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor! Thi…

> When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor!

Weird, that's not my experience. I use the markdown exclusively, creating, editing, or commenting.

Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

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Post by mattbk1 »

jimbob45 wrote: post #22

As someone who makes this type of product, I tend to hate this industry. We make things far more complicated than they need be. It's all just ticketing software with labels changed and I just want a list of all the tickets for me to manually filter. I'm tired of companies thinking I don't know the best way to see the tickets I want to see.

We're actually building something fairly simple in Smartsheet, which has Gantt, table, and kanban views that can all be filtered. It's slightly more sophisticated than just tags, but our business model requires Gantt integration, unfortunately.
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