Is there a software platform that more accurately tracks how software is actually developed? (I'm using JIRA below, but sub any other tracker I've used) Gener

Is there a software platform that more accurately tracks how software is actually developed? (I'm using JIRA below, but sub any other tracker I've used) Generally I'll start with a very rough idea of how something should work. At this stage, I may not even capture a task in JIRA, or perhaps not even tell anybody I'm trying something out, because it is an experiment very likely to fail. If that works, I'll put together a document (Dropbox paper/Google docs etc.) laying out the basic idea and what needs to happen to fix the problem at production quality. This will surface a multitude of open questions, some of which are more around code-reading and prototyping, than again, a deliverable that can be captured in JIRA. In addition, as the project becomes more of a reality, other teams with dependencies or concerns are pulled in, and the scope of my document expands to capture how we are going to solve or work around those problems. The difficulty I face is that it is really annoying or sometimes even incoherent to create JIRA tasks capturing things in this document. First, because I am now duplicating work that was already captured in the doc. Second, I'm losing the narrative structure that keeps it all coherent in my mind, as well as the minds of readers. Third, it is near impossible to reconcile tasks being closed in JIRA vs keeping the doc itself live. For example, something might come up that forces a change of design, and now I'd like to throw away all JIRA tasks related to a specific section of the doc. But creating that level of specificity while filing tasks is really hard, so now I need to run some kind of triage and manually read and filter those tasks I want to close. This means I'm either procrastinating on updating JIRA to reflect the real nature of the project, or I'm procrastinating on updating the narrative. Instead, if the tasks were somehow inlined into my narrative structure, and manipulable within that structure, that would be really cool! Something along the lines of Tiddlywiki almost. That way everyone on the project could see what is done and what is pending _as part of the narrative_. I can very easily write sentences to capture a new requirement and do some markup or keyboard shortcut to assign it the semantics of a task. I guess a related ask here is to make it very easy (thinking of something like Grafana) to create dashboards that show things like "number of open tasks left to finish feature X" and so on. I hope I'm getting some of my ideas across.