The way he described the organically grown city is certainly a way to do things in Jira. Just write your tickets that way. Don't have a ticket for a whole block

The way he described the organically grown city is certainly a way to do things in Jira. Just write your tickets that way. Don't have a ticket for a whole block, or a whole airport. Have a ticket for the dirt airstrip. Don't write all your tickets in the beginning, write them as things progress. Going back to the start of the article: have a ticket for the caching of the 3rd party service, have a ticket for your data model (your engineering team might be the person the story is centered on in these cases).