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From the makers of Jira and Confluence... no thanks.

• amiga-workbench 9y ago
  While Jira isn't amazing, its been a useful addition where I work. I just wish it wasn't so slow, and it could integrate better with some kind of scheduling software to flag obvious shortfalls.
• breakingcups 9y ago
  Could you at least add what your criticism on those two products is? Jira and Confluence get a lot of hate, but I feel like that's mostly because of how it's set up by organizations. At my organization we've set up Jira (and later Confluence) in a very developer-centric way, by looking at the best way it could help the developer first, project manager second. This has led to universal adoption and no complaints or ill attitudes toward Atlassian products.
  • Karunamon 9y ago
    I can definitely echo this. Confluence is just a wiki, Jira is just an issue tracker - both of these kinds of tools are table stakes for any serious development group. Most of the hate comes from the crappy setups enforced by overbearing companies. I've got very few complaints with either of these tools when developers are included in the talks about how they're to be set up and used. Any tool can be made obnoxious if managed incorrectly.
  • CaptSpify 9y ago
    Not who you are replying to but... I feel like Jira is trying to be too many things, instead of focusing on one goal, which leads to the bad setups that you mentioned. Though I agree that at the end of the day, it seems more like the org's fault, rather than Atlassian's. Confluence feels amateurish: email notifications never work right, and the search is a joke. The buttons are unintuitive, and the overall organization of pages is a mess. Debugging either of them when they crash all the time is a pain. Upgrades never go smoothly, and Atlassian can't even read their own core-dumps.