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Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

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Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#11

Does anyone else find it pretty obnoxious that this site changes the window title back and forth between "Jira is a microcosm of what’s broken in software development" and "(1) New Message!"? Is this a bug? Who thought this was a good idea?

That website is "a microcosm of what's broken" with websites.

Here is that content without that: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/32605

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#13

Does anyone else find it pretty obnoxious that this site changes the window title back and forth between "Jira is a microcosm of what’s broken in software development" and "(1) New Message!"? Is this a bug? Who thought this was a good idea?

This website is packed with reader hostility. A chat bot to recommend articles to me? Really?

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#14
"Though I think of Jira more like a spreadsheet. Very useful once upon a time. Outdated now. Static. Manual."

This statement is so blatantly wrong that it actually put me off even reading the rest. Spreadsheets are stronger than they've ever been and are never going away, let alone being "outdated." Sure there are products that claim to be "the next spreadsheet" but most of those actually serve a different purpose: no-code app dev.

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#15

Does anyone else find it pretty obnoxious that this site changes the window title back and forth between "Jira is a microcosm of what’s broken in software development" and "(1) New Message!"? Is this a bug? Who thought this was a good idea?

That website is "a microcosm of what's broken" with websites. Here is that content without that: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/32605

Lol yes! The fixed floating header, the pop-up modal after a few seconds, the long load time for text/image content...

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#16

Shots fired! It's true though. Using Jira is a struggle.

I started tolerating it after discovering it has keyboard shortcuts. Try pressing +? to see what's available in given context.

+ Make sure you have it bookmarked as search engine. Also makes it so much nicer when you can jump to specific ticket by using 'j FOO-123' from address bar. Or 'j whatever keywords' to do regular search.

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

#18

I briefly used Jira, but I couldn't handle the extreme slowness. You click something. Then you wait. And wait. And wait.

Yeah. That part is bad and has somehow gotten worse. The animations don't help.

They have a MacOS app now, which I've been meaning to try.

Re: Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

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post #3

I spend hours per day in Jira. Half as a PM, and the other half as an IC. I've never used Jira Classic, so can't comment there. But Jira Next Gen projects have been great to work with. So much functionality and bloat is stripped out of Next Gen, sometimes too much was removed I think. I hear people hating on Jira very often, but at least the way our company uses it, it's great. The only thing I'd really want to chang…

> performance

By Atlassian’s ToS, you are not allowed to « comment on the performance of the products ». I know no-one thinks this would be enforced here, but I just want to highlight that it doesn’t help a company to improve if they know they can just lawyer-up a problem away and avoid benchmarks and being compared on that topic.

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