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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

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Post by t0mbstone »

ghostpepper wrote: post #8

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?

It's their little messaging thingy in the bottom right. You have to click the x to close the notification.

It's seriously obnoxious!

Also, as a side note, the whole article is written by a JIRA competitor. Totally not biased at all!

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

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Post by boudin »

cloudengineer wrote: post #4

Jira is a workflow tool, which also means that most of the issues mentioned here, can be sorted out between the PM and devs on who the workflow should be, and what the rituals for updates should/could be. Jira is flexible enough to accomodate it (mostly). From a developer perspective, some of the points maybe valid, but not from PM perspective. It would also help if we could get an idea of what the alternatives are,…

I'm using Jira, not a huge fan (mostly because it's slow, the cloud version at least) and there's some clunkyness BUT every time I looked for alternatives it was either too opiniated (like SCRUM or nothing) or had really poor integration with dev tools. The big advantage of Jira is that you can customise it quite a bit and it has a good set of integrations and APIs.

I'm still thinking of moving away at some point but haven't found any alternative...

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

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Post by pm90 »

tensor wrote: post #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 Outdated now.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 Spreadsheets are stronger than they've ever been and are never going away, let alone being "outdated."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: n…

If you’re going to make judgements so easily you’re going to miss out on a lot of good ideas that people put out there.

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

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Post by laurent92 »

bachmeier wrote: post #6

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

Cloud or Server? It seems a lot of companies’ reputation were broken by clients installing their software on 2GB/1.5GHz servers with HDD, and Cloud will help at least getting a consistent measurable experience of the same product for everyone.

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

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Post by nine_k »

pm90 wrote: post #27
tensor wrote: post #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: n…

If you’re going to make judgements so easily you’re going to miss out on a lot of good ideas that people put out there.

Such a beginning does set some expectations of competence, unfortunately :(
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