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The problem with Jira...is that it isn't for you. No really. It is a B2B company that sells an idea to large orgs. "Know what is happening for everything and w

The problem with Jira...is that it isn't for you. No really. It is a B2B company that sells an idea to large orgs. "Know what is happening for everything and where you will be in a month. It is not "Enable your workers to work more efficiently". Jira simply doesn't really care about the average dev or such. In fact, most orgs use such a wildly configured version that it is pretty absurd. Let me give you an example: Most companies have a workflow: To Do > In Progress > Testing > Done. Foundationally, Testing and In Progress are tasks done by different operators. Jira doesn't, out of the box, conceptualize who tested a ticket and who developed it. It is all one field. You don't have seperate pointing for testing and development so you can't track QA capacity (Which is helpful to a team but not to overall planning as it just causes rushed QA). You don't have historical views of prior sprints "What was that Ticket I worked on last sprint?" (because that means nothing for forward velocity other than the final number) I could go on..but it all leads back to an absurd UI focused purely on projects and velocity above helpfulness. (And don't get me started on Jira's absurd take on SCRUM) Honestly, I'm kinda shocked no major software company has not just built their own and knocked Atlassian out of the park. I'm sure tracking velocity of other companies would be highly...helpful for Google/MS.

KronisLV 4y ago
> The problem with Jira...is that it isn't for you. It's more or less one of those enterprise software packages that will be depended upon in larger orgs, because "nobody ever got fired for choosing $VENDOR". That sort of software tries to do a bit of everything, provide lots of features and customizability, sometimes at the expense of being more complex, bloated and slow. Most people working on their own projects, when fully in control of the decision of what software they want to pick to best suit their own direct needs, might settle on something like Trello or even Kanboard instead. Personally, I self-host OpenProject because its features are a nice fit for my needs, even if it's still a bit sluggish (Rails app, limited hardware resources). Honestly, the performance of Kanboard was blazing fast when compared to anything out there - which is in no small part thanks to how focused and minimalist it is, which in some cases will be exactly what you'll want. As another good example, I'd also put something like the Oracle database in same category: there will be many projects out there developed around it, as well as lots of knowledge, training, as well as entire professions built around it. But most people won't necessarily reach for something like Oracle XE for their own personal projects, they'll instead pick something like PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB, because both of those are a little bit simpler to get started with and keep running, while still provide sufficient functionality. This is an anecdote, but recently I launched all of the mentioned database options one after another in containers, for some testing. Oracle took around 10-20 minutes to start up an de usable. MySQL took about 5-10 minutes to become available for connections. PostgreSQL needed just 2 minutes. That's even before I get into how much data Oracle created in a container volume meant for data persistence (an order of magnitude more than MySQL or PostgreSQL). I experienced similar behavior when setting up my own trial/testing license of Jira because I needed to do some integration dev work - with the resources given to it, I found it to be pretty sluggish and creating new issues took multiple seconds, which does get annoying when you also want to edit some of the fields, or have to do it often as a part of your work. Though I don't have exact numbers for that, I'm afraid.

KronisLV 4y ago

> The problem with Jira...is that it isn't for you. It's more or less one of those enterprise software packages that will be depended upon in larger orgs, because "nobody ever got fired for choosing $VENDOR". That sort of software tries to do a bit of everything, provide lots of features and customizability, sometimes at the expense of being more complex, bloated and slow. Most people working on their own projects, when fully in control of the decision of what software they want to pick to best suit their own direct needs, might settle on something like Trello or even Kanboard instead. Personally, I self-host OpenProject because its features are a nice fit for my needs, even if it's still a bit sluggish (Rails app, limited hardware resources). Honestly, the performance of Kanboard was blazing fast when compared to anything out there - which is in no small part thanks to how focused and minimalist it is, which in some cases will be exactly what you'll want. As another good example, I'd also put something like the Oracle database in same category: there will be many projects out there developed around it, as well as lots of knowledge, training, as well as entire professions built around it. But most people won't necessarily reach for something like Oracle XE for their own personal projects, they'll instead pick something like PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB, because both of those are a little bit simpler to get started with and keep running, while still provide sufficient functionality. This is an anecdote, but recently I launched all of the mentioned database options one after another in containers, for some testing. Oracle took around 10-20 minutes to start up an de usable. MySQL took about 5-10 minutes to become available for connections. PostgreSQL needed just 2 minutes. That's even before I get into how much data Oracle created in a container volume meant for data persistence (an order of magnitude more than MySQL or PostgreSQL). I experienced similar behavior when setting up my own trial/testing license of Jira because I needed to do some integration dev work - with the resources given to it, I found it to be pretty sluggish and creating new issues took multiple seconds, which does get annoying when you also want to edit some of the fields, or have to do it often as a part of your work. Though I don't have exact numbers for that, I'm afraid.