I like Jira because it hides the crap I don't want to do or think about in this thing called the backlog, which I can point to as a "see, it is something in the works but we don't have enough resources" thing, and then I can focus on the things I need/want to do by putting them in the Will Do Soon column.
I fucking hate Jira
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#12I'll start complaining about JIRA when I find a reasonable alternative for my organization. Until then, I'm just glad we're not using IBM Rational ClearQuest anymore.
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#13The two people who drove our company to Jira from other tools:
- One of them resigned soon after the migration.
- The other barely uses it today - in fact, he found other tools for his team because Jira is too cumbersome.
The rest of us are left holding the bag because "Jira is the industry standard".
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#14I wish the comments were more specific about which features they don’t like. For me a particularly frustrating aspect is the way the UI moves around a lot. I’m quite anxious to click anything until all the loading spinners have stopped in case I click the wrong thing. Then I could be taken to a page or feature I’ve never seen before. Also it’s really annoying when I try to copy something from a ticket description but…
It's such a bloated mess that it's hard to point to a specific thing.
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#15I'm sometimes kind of surprised at how often I see people say they don't mind it. It's by far the tool I like the least out of everything I've used at any job I've ever been in.
The UX is annoying as hell but I am almost never unable to do what I need to do. I can't say that for all SaaS tools.
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#16I wish the comments were more specific about which features they don’t like. For me a particularly frustrating aspect is the way the UI moves around a lot. I’m quite anxious to click anything until all the loading spinners have stopped in case I click the wrong thing. Then I could be taken to a page or feature I’ve never seen before. Also it’s really annoying when I try to copy something from a ticket description but…
It’s like trying to describe why a McDonalds $1.99 burger is bad, to someone who just lists ingredients and insists it has just the same mayo, cheese & patty as a $12.99 burger does.
It’s not about any single feature being missing, it’s just terrible the same way Vista was terrible
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#17I'm sometimes kind of surprised at how often I see people say they don't mind it. It's by far the tool I like the least out of everything I've used at any job I've ever been in.
It's quite easy to have a minimized exposure to jira as a developer. I hate its guts but if my interactions are limited to writing a few tickets and changing statuses then its awfulness is more somebody else's problem and it doesnt bother me nearly as much.
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#18I'm sometimes kind of surprised at how often I see people say they don't mind it. It's by far the tool I like the least out of everything I've used at any job I've ever been in.
I don't mind it. Maybe because I only peek into it about once per week or so, so we don't really drive daily work using it.
Same, I check into Jira once per day, max. It's useful to give an overview of what everyone is working on in the "Kanban" meetings twice weekly. I use quotes because we really don't follow any strict rules or structures, everyone just kind of does what needs to be done to keep things moving forward.
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#19Reminds me of this classic piece of Internet lore: https://www.internetisshit.org
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#20What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?