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At the only place I’ve worked where they used Jira, only the product managers and business people used it. Devs worked from stories printed on cards. The cards would get passed around until completed, the manager would then update Jira. The advantage I guess is that Jira had a smaller audience so could be better configured for what the business wanted from it, and fewer people had to learn how to use it.
The Problem with Jira is not that it's dumb or too sophisticated. The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you right now where the a lot of frustration arises. In a simila…
And It became that willingly, because Atlassian understood that their customer wasn't devs or PMs, but managers and corporate procurement people. They fully deserves to be on the hook for their product.
I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…
The fact that it’s basically the same thing is probably a positive for a lot of people shopping for alternatives.
Those don't market themselves as similar to Jira, but that's not exactly a feature, so what are the differences in practice?
The Problem with Jira is not that it's dumb or too sophisticated. The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you right now where the a lot of frustration arises. In a simila…
The biggest issue, in my experience, has always been its performance. Perhaps I have only worked in organisations that have completely misconfigured their Jira instances or the servers are underpowered, but even with the Atlassian Cloud, I am used to waiting 10 seconds to move a ticket from one column to another. Or add a ticket to the backlog, click the backlog, ticket isn't there yet, refresh the backlog, it's ther…
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I love having an open source option. On the other hand, this is a total rip-off of Linear.app. Even the website is a copy-paste of Linear.app. A bit shocking. And for the record, Linear.app is amazing and a fantastic alternative to Jira.
How is it different from all the other open-source issue trackers and project managers? Taiga.io, Open project, Focalboard, Redmine, etc Those don't market themselves as similar to Jira, but that's not exactly a feature, so what are the differences in practice?
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I love having an open source option. On the other hand, this is a total rip-off of Linear.app. Even the website is a copy-paste of Linear.app. A bit shocking. And for the record, Linear.app is amazing and a fantastic alternative to Jira.
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Yeah I agree with the problem description. I've seen several times Jira becoming co-opted into a sort of potemkin village where official progress is reported for customers/nervous bosses/reports upstairs, where every wording is carefully chosen as to not raise questions and sometimes tasks and progress is invented to create the appearance of smooth operations; meanwhile the need for actual tracking and planning is do…
Seems like you are describing a agile burndown chart? Soooner or later the ant hill learns to report progress to make the line smooth via telepatic cooperation.
Probably the best feature of Linear is realtime sync, that is also what makes it feel so good to use (it writes to memory first so everything is instant). This seems like it doesn't have that, so it lacks a pretty big selling point.