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Which is funny because 99% of what project managers seem to be about is making sure work gets done. So the first thing they do is deploy a hurdle to this by ens
by bamboozled 4y ago
Which is funny because 99% of what project managers seem to be about is making sure work gets done. So the first thing they do is deploy a hurdle to this by ensuring they use a tool which is time consuming and confusing for the people who do the work (usually developers to use) and enforce it's usage.
JIRA is so slow and the UI so clunky the project managers where I work use some type of spreadsheet upload mechanism with XML spreadsheets to automate the cruft creation. It's fun to watch.
- ZainRiz 4y ago> Which is funny because 99% of what project managers seem to be about is making sure work gets done Unfortunately, from the project manager's perspective the emphasis is on the words making sure And Jira lets them think they're doing that
- bamboozled 4y agoI agree this is where it goes wrong. Chasing an nice looking burn down chart.
- urthor 4y agoThe issue is that software developers (correctly) identify the burndown chart as useless due to estimation in software being a joke. Software developers' mistake is not realizing that "linking the tickets" into Epics that managers can search is hugely important. If the project director has no clue about what tickets people are working on things go south fast. All developers should agree on that.
- bamboozled 4y agoThey don’t because no matter how well my tasks are mapped to tasks it rarely reflects reality. The only reason stuff gets done as it should it because me and my peers are responsible, and because we have a good understanding of what needs to be done, not because of how things are mapped in JIRA.