How long do your legs need to be? Long enough to reach the floor. How much Jira (or other tool) is needed is a very subjective thing, but when you focus on th

How long do your legs need to be? Long enough to reach the floor. How much Jira (or other tool) is needed is a very subjective thing, but when you focus on the outcomes it can become clear if you need more or less. Does any of your manager, Product Manager, Project Manager, skip level, or teammates create unneeded communication overhead asking what the status of something is and when it will be done? A planning tool should communicate that. Are deadlines being missed or visibility into what is actually being done missing? Planning tools should help with estimation and revealing how much complex work is being done. In a lot of ways these tools are not going to make the work faster, but instead make it so that the human side is appeased. It reduces anxiety of managers, it creates an understandable evidence of work (most non-technical folks cannot tell the difference between a good and great implementation just by observing the app, but they can understand a ticket that explains a refactor). It drives alignment, communication, and buy in. The fastest a developer can go is alone in a dark room with no interruptions. But that doesn't scale. Even if that engineer is a 10x engineer, you still need a different system when you want 11x development. That's when planning, communication, coordination, allocation etc. all come into play.