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I’ve heard of people turning down job offers because the employer uses Jira, and I sympathise with that position.
by yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
I’ve heard of people turning down job offers because the employer uses Jira, and I sympathise with that position.
- fredophile 5y agoOver the years I've worked with a number of different bug/task trackers. I've largely found them to be about equally good/bad but with different pain points in each. Can you tell me why you think Jira is bad and what alternative is better?
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI'm sure everyone has their own reasons for disliking Jira. Personally, I find it to be slow and overly complex/rigid. It seems to encourage less competent middle manager PHB types to obsess over minutiae like all the various possible configurations, filters, workflows, etc, and miss the point of empathetic communication between humans. I just want a minimal, digital KanBan board that my colleagues can use for collaboratively organising work with the least amount of friction. I think Trello works rather well for that. I'm sure there are others too.
- phkahler 5y agoOh lets throw perforce in there too. Ugh. I had an easier time when I first learned git.
- dijit 5y agoPerforce is actually growing on me. I think what changed was having a built in “checkout this file” in my editor… because my biggest issue was friction of checking out files, and losing context by the time I had done that. But the shelving/fetching/reconciling/diffing works pretty decently. Swarm could use a bit more love though.