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Wasted man years by Jira, per day

40 points by JensRantil 6y ago

gexla 6y ago
Could be worse, some people waste entire careers in BS jobs. There's a bit of BS in every job though. I guess the story here (other than being a joke) is to get project management software with a faster UI.
- JensRantil 6y ago
  Yes, and one additional wish would be better UX in general; "Why do you I need to expand to show the latest comment if I sort cronologically in a ticket?", "Text edit fields differ in behaviour depending on where I am", "Links in text fields gets expanded to some hardcoded box with icons making it really hard to see the cursor.", "How do I move a ticket to and from a board other than from the 'Backlog' view?" are some things that quickly comes to mind. The strongest arguments I hear for Jira is that "it can do everything" and "everyone else in the market are using it". Those are null arguments to me.
beaconstudios 6y ago
Jira just isn't very good software. Even if it were lightning fast, the UI is still not designed for project management - its a bug tracker. It reminds me of the joke about c++ being an octopus made by stapling extra legs onto a dog.
- kevincox 6y ago
  Jira isn't a very good bug tracker either. Doing xommon operations ends up being a handful of clicks (although this can very depending on configuration) it doesn't show history or comments clearly and adding dependencies between bugs is so painful. It also can't do things that I consider basic such as "show me my unblocked issues"
TeeWEE 6y ago
I just dont understand why JIRA is so slow... Something weird is going on. They are not connected to external API's that could make them slow... Trello (although less features) is a breeze for me.
digitalsushi 6y ago
Is this expressible as a JQL query?
phendrenad2 6y ago
I keep hoping some company will (A) Recognize all of the good features of Jira (B) reimplement them to be faster So far every competitor has gone straight for B and didn't spend any time on A though.
vsskanth 6y ago
Atleast JIRA isn't confusing. Finding or adding a task in azure devops takes forever because of its cryptic UI.

40 points by JensRantil 6y ago

Could be worse, some people waste entire careers in BS jobs. There's a bit of BS in every job though. I guess the story here (other than being a joke) is to get project management software with a faster UI.

JensRantil 6y ago
Yes, and one additional wish would be better UX in general; "Why do you I need to expand to show the latest comment if I sort cronologically in a ticket?", "Text edit fields differ in behaviour depending on where I am", "Links in text fields gets expanded to some hardcoded box with icons making it really hard to see the cursor.", "How do I move a ticket to and from a board other than from the 'Backlog' view?" are some things that quickly comes to mind. The strongest arguments I hear for Jira is that "it can do everything" and "everyone else in the market are using it". Those are null arguments to me.

beaconstudios 6y ago

Jira just isn't very good software. Even if it were lightning fast, the UI is still not designed for project management - its a bug tracker. It reminds me of the joke about c++ being an octopus made by stapling extra legs onto a dog.

kevincox 6y ago
Jira isn't a very good bug tracker either. Doing xommon operations ends up being a handful of clicks (although this can very depending on configuration) it doesn't show history or comments clearly and adding dependencies between bugs is so painful. It also can't do things that I consider basic such as "show me my unblocked issues"

TeeWEE 6y ago

I just dont understand why JIRA is so slow... Something weird is going on. They are not connected to external API's that could make them slow... Trello (although less features) is a breeze for me.

digitalsushi 6y ago

Is this expressible as a JQL query?

phendrenad2 6y ago

I keep hoping some company will (A) Recognize all of the good features of Jira (B) reimplement them to be faster So far every competitor has gone straight for B and didn't spend any time on A though.

vsskanth 6y ago

Atleast JIRA isn't confusing. Finding or adding a task in azure devops takes forever because of its cryptic UI.