I have just tried it and after planning a small sprint for my team I loved it immediately. I'd absolutely love to give it a go at my company. I want an on-premise version.
What would be your biggest hurdle for adoption for a web-based version?
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We're releasing about two integrations per month (April was trello import and Github bi-directional sync) so we should get there soon! Our speed of shipping integrations is getting faster with time however.
Awesome..is there anywhere I can track the integrations, like a public roadmap or something along those lines?
Ahh that's a cool idea- we really need to work on public sprint boards and actually show our weekly sprints and releases. We typically just discuss them on our twitter and our blog. Here's today's release: https://blog.tara.ai/release-log-may-1/
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As a manager I follow two principles that help me to prioritise tasks for a weekly sprint. First, every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two. So it's not about not trusting the development team. It's about understanding the tradeoffs and how the delivery date will be affected. Second, how well can you predict what you can achieve as a developer in one day vs one hundred days? The estimat…
> every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two You forgot about quality. It can blow the other 3 out of the water.
I think I have to agree. I understand the impulse to say that it's implicit, and certainly the desire to build a quality product usually is. But in reality, to actually verify quality before you ship often requires a lot of costly infrastructure and time-consuming work. So in practice, it really is a lever that often gets sacrificed---usually at the alter of the timeline. You could argue that a feature that is broken isn't a feature, but there are many subtle degrees of broken-ness. A bug that happens 1 in 1000 times might be acceptable, or it might not.
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> every project has three levers: budget, timeliness, features. Choose two You forgot about quality. It can blow the other 3 out of the water.
...if you consider quality a lever, you're not the kind of person anyone should want to work with! You agree on quality standards before you begin, and you deliver the quality level that you agreed beforehand, not more, not less (you deliver sooner if it goes better than expected giving the product-owner ability to add features or redirect effort actually using your "superpowers" if any to give the business a real ad…
You could just as easily say that you agree on the feature set beforehand, and you deliver that feature set, not more, not less (you deliver sooner if you finish the features early).
"The quality level you agreed beforehand" is meaningless without some infrastructure and processes in place to verify it. And in practice, those infrastructure and processes are compromised at least as often as the feature set, the budget, or the timeline.
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I’ve turned down job offers I was interested in from companies because I found out they use the atlassian stuff, that’s how much I dislike it. I wonder if I’m the only one.
I'm sure you're not, but that's a pretty silly reason to turn down an offer if you're interested in the company.
Why do you think it’s a silly reason? I don’t want to spend a lot of hours every day working with something I genuinely dislike.
Don’t get me wrong, I know I’m fortunate enough since I get to pick and chose, but the time we spend on project management, even as developers, isn’t exactly insignificant.
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#156Tara looks great, trying it out. Also, I love the clarity of the landing page. I apologize if it is off-topic: what product/tool did you use for creating the main video in landing page? Thank you!
Good ol' camtasia from my video editing days! Side hustled as a Udemy instructor in 2012, and camtasia is just as good now as it was back then.
Thank you!
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#157I wish I could be off of Jira and all of Atlassian. Sadly, that is not my decision to make. Atlassian's antics with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket have really started to make me mad. Jira is changing it's editor... slowly. The old editor had nice shortcuts, like h1. - h6., {code}, {blockquote} etc. When you create a ticket - it's the old editor, but when you edit a ticket or write a comment, it's the new editor! Thi…
https://www.phacility.com/
Having come from a JIRA/Github/Confluence setup in my previous role to a Phabricator setup in my current role, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd give anything to have JIRA back.
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#158Hey folks. My co-founder and I started noodling on productivity tools a few years ago. After interviewing 250+ engineers and founders, we discovered that most project management software a) takes a lot of time to configure b) is not built for cross-functional teams and c) takes away focus from the release cycle. The status quo is that engineers spend precious time wading through tickets, and EMs + PMs continue to lac…
I've never worked in a place that had 'release cycles'.
Maybe it's just me, but maybe not.
So I'm glad that Jira doesn't force its 'release cycle' shenanigans on me. Like with git, not being opinionated is the road to success.
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#159congrats on the release! I tried a little bit and this looks nice. I like the focus on agile workflow so that people can quickly evaluate whether this is suitable for them. Liking it so far! although I seem to have a problem searching for task inside my requirement details
Sorry to hear! Can you elaborate on the issue?
creating several tasks -> creating requirement -> go to requirement details -> search task -> no loading progress and/or result visible
:)
Re: Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure you're not, but that's a pretty silly reason to turn down an offer if you're interested in the company.
Why do you think it’s a silly reason? I don’t want to spend a lot of hours every day working with something I genuinely dislike. Don’t get me wrong, I know I’m fortunate enough since I get to pick and chose, but the time we spend on project management, even as developers, isn’t exactly insignificant.
If jira has permissions setup incorrectly, then it really can be worth moving on.
I haven't seen any blocker-level issues with confluence, aside from just being crappy to use, but looking really good.