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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are not a developer, spreadsheets are a tool that lets you get similar capability in many cases. It is basically no-code for accountants, portfolio managers, and non software engineers.

Cool. If you have a spreadsheet that's longer-lived than a few hours, you should probably evaluate whether you're adopting the best approach. You can replace a blown fuse with a penny, too, but you should probably call an electrician instead.

> Cool. If you have a spreadsheet that's longer-lived than a few hours, you should probably evaluate whether you're adopting the best approach. You can replace a blown fuse with a penny, too, but you should probably call an electrician instead.

or just replace the fuse with a fuse? If you have a spreadsheet and it works for you, why spend time getting a programmer to "do it properly"?

one of the largest Finnish waste disposal companies has a no-code product that runs in excel basically and rakes them millions a year.

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

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> This blog is not about how Jira is too complex and over-engineered with features I don’t need. This blogpost is a microcosm of engineer arrogance (it's also an ad for their product, so all of this is basically a strawman to drive sign-ups. Great content marketing, to bash on a tool people love to hate). The world is not all about engineers. Jira is a tool for whole companies, which have lots of other departments th…

Jira as a representative of process is not bad and the visibility it offers, like you said, is valuable to people outside of your teams as well. But Jira as a product itself is horrid. It's janky, slow and overly complex even for simple things. No matter how much money you throw at it, creating a ticket or updating an epic just takes way too much time and mental effort.

There's a ton of better alternatives, Basecamp, Asana and Trello for example. Sure, they can't be configured as deeply as Jira, but they don't make me want to kill myself either.

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