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I wish those kinds of posts would explain what they suggest instead of JIRA. Because this makes meaning very different. Get rid of JIRA, do not have any tracke
by theamk 5y ago
I wish those kinds of posts would explain what they suggest instead of JIRA. Because this makes meaning very different.
Get rid of JIRA, do not have any tracker at all, communicate things verbally only? I have seen this work very badly... things dropped on the floor, forgotten features for release. And it makes inter-team collaboration much harder: if you have a request for other team, you have to either attend their meetings, or ping them in person with "how is the progress" questions... which makes it easier to just ignore other team and do the thing yourself.
Get rid of JIRA, replace with other "Agile-oriented" ticketing system? I haven't seen those in action, but that would be an interesting blog post to read.
Get rid of JIRA, replace with other simple ticketing system like TRAC, Trello, or Github Issues? Meh.. You can duplicate parts of JIRA out of anything -- even in github issues, you can make a label for "sprint" and define "epics" using tickets which reference each other. Or you can prohibit regular people from creating tickets.
Get rid of JIRA, replace with ad-hoc things like email inbox, google doc, or a wiki page? I think this works when there are only a few people, but once you have more than half a dozen you really need a good discipline to avoid making a huge mess.
Get rid of default JIRA setup that some Agile coaches talk about? That would make much more sense to me. Wouldn't make a very catchy blog post title though.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoGet rid of scrum and jira - sprints only work when you’ve got deadlines.
- theamk 5y agoScrum I don't care about, but you need to keep a list of bugs somewhere. And a list of requests too, if you have multiple teams. What are you going to use for those?
- milgrim 5y agoRedmine works just fine.
- pleb_nz 5y agoI'm confused by your comment, jira doesn't force sprints or scrum on it's users. Could you explain?
- dzhiurgis 5y agoKia ora, if you dont need sprints then just use github projects.
- SkyPuncher 5y agoSprints solve a huge problem for my team: arbitrary, made up deadlines. We run sprints, measure velocity and use that to plan work.
- smackeyacky 5y agoI'm not entirely sure about that. Sometimes recording all the excrutiating detail and meaningless busy work requests kills a project. You are better off using forgetfulness as a filter. If something is really important, it will come back up anyway. If it's useless work to make Jimbo from HR feel like he is contributing, it's a total waste of everybodies time including Jimbos. The project manager should be doing this stuff, not some micro detailed wall of unimportant Jira jobs.