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I feel the same way about Asana and Jira. They're so customizable and cater to too many people that it requires management to be someone's full time job. And I

I feel the same way about Asana and Jira. They're so customizable and cater to too many people that it requires management to be someone's full time job. And I haven't found someone who is passionately in support of such as service as you might find with say Notion. I've been working on a project that is attacking this problem but from the TODO comments angle. https://cosmolabs.io https://cosmolabs.io

nicbou 6y ago
It's my full time job, and I agree. However keeping Jira in line with reality helps me catch inconsistencies in requirements and plans.
karatestomp 6y ago
Working in Jira and (especially) Asana always feels like working on a VNC share of the person in charge's cluttered desktop-covered-in-folders organizational system. Everything's hard to find and I'm afraid to touch anything for fear I'll accidentally drag something somewhere then not be able to find it again to put it back. Except it's that plus 1.5GB of memory use and a few tens of a % of a processor core. [EDIT] and I've found that to be true when working for people so good at using the software that they made popular training videos for it, not just morons who don't know how they work.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  Sometime I wish that my project was managed in a folder with neatly arranged subfolders all in ASCII text. Specs in the specs-folder. Release lists in the release list folder. Bugs in the bugs folder, with a text file for "reported", "active" and "fixed" bugs sorted by release version folders. I honestly would want to try it. Files and folders are the abstraction that was supposed to replace physical folders with files, but in practice files stored in computers/network/mail are just a bunch of papers randomly put everywhere. How about using folders as they were supposed to ...

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I feel the same way about Asana and Jira. They're so customizable and cater to too many people that it requires management to be someone's full time job. And I

by zakallen 6y ago

nicbou 6y ago
It's my full time job, and I agree. However keeping Jira in line with reality helps me catch inconsistencies in requirements and plans.
karatestomp 6y ago
Working in Jira and (especially) Asana always feels like working on a VNC share of the person in charge's cluttered desktop-covered-in-folders organizational system. Everything's hard to find and I'm afraid to touch anything for fear I'll accidentally drag something somewhere then not be able to find it again to put it back. Except it's that plus 1.5GB of memory use and a few tens of a % of a processor core. [EDIT] and I've found that to be true when working for people so good at using the software that they made popular training videos for it, not just morons who don't know how they work.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  Sometime I wish that my project was managed in a folder with neatly arranged subfolders all in ASCII text. Specs in the specs-folder. Release lists in the release list folder. Bugs in the bugs folder, with a text file for "reported", "active" and "fixed" bugs sorted by release version folders. I honestly would want to try it. Files and folders are the abstraction that was supposed to replace physical folders with files, but in practice files stored in computers/network/mail are just a bunch of papers randomly put everywhere. How about using folders as they were supposed to ...