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Ticketing systems are only awful if they try to model everything. … Which is something that ticketing systems tend to evolve towards over time. Maybe it’s some
by catlifeonmars 3y ago
Ticketing systems are only awful if they try to model everything. … Which is something that ticketing systems tend to evolve towards over time. Maybe it’s some organizational phenomenon vaguely related to Conways law…
- mst 3y agoIn practice, I tend to find ticketing systems almost invariably exist either in a superposition of modeling too much and modeling too little, or as you say, have tried to model everything to the point where you can't find anything. The 'almost' is because e.g. RT or JIRA -can- be configured such that they provide exactly the details and workflow that each team/queue wants and end up being almost pleasant to work with, but putting in the necessary business analysis time and having somebody learn their configuration and scripting facilities sufficiently to actually achieve that is something I only encounter very occasionally.