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Jira sucks but it's not because of these reasons. In fact if you fixed each item here, it would be worse. Jira sucks because it is unopinionated and infinitely
by dyeje 6y ago
Jira sucks but it's not because of these reasons. In fact if you fixed each item here, it would be worse.
Jira sucks because it is unopinionated and infinitely customizable. As a result, everybody who believes they've discovered the perfect project management setup (spoiler: they haven't) is empowered to cook up their vision via an inscrutable set of customizations. This leads to a bunch of inconsistencies between projects and endless bikeshedding. I imagine all this dynamic configuration is also the reason their cloud hosted version is so painfully slow.
- elric 6y agoThere is no magical one-size-fits-all project management setup. Having a tool that is customizable to match your team's workflow is a great win in my book. I've never encountered any organizations where there is endless bikeshedding regarding Jira. Would you care to give an example?
- alexchamberlain 6y agoFormat of labels; what is an epic, vs a version on an epic; what do swim lanes represent; do you tag cross team dependencies etc
- wombat-man 6y agoYeah, I've had really positive experiences with Jira, and I think it's only because the person who configured it knew what they were doing. It was also a smaller company so the limited complexity of the project could have also helped.