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Reading this news makes me happy because I know someone somewhere is likely going to be have the chance to argue that it's time to migrate away from JIRA and Co
by ChatGTP 3y ago
Reading this news makes me happy because I know someone somewhere is likely going to be have the chance to argue that it's time to migrate away from JIRA and Confluence.
I personally they haveheld back nearly every organization I've worked for in some way or another over the last 15 years. These Atlassian products are the destroyers of enjoyment, satisfaction, project management and productivity.
Issues I've encountered with Confluence and JIRA:
* Painfully slow UI.
* The confusing UX for JIRA.
* The 100x ways to accomplish the same things in JIRA.
* The fact project managers always end up going back to a spreadsheets because JIRA doesn't cut it, even though they insist they need to continue using it.
* The way people bastardize every installation of JIRA it never seems to solve the problem it was designed to solve adequately, or because that was encouraged via "plugins".
* JIRA can't be upgraded because someone installed a plugin that cannot be upgraded too, but the whole org is dependent on some functionality from said plugin.
* The pathetic search in both product.
* The shitty editor in confluence I really cannot believe anyone is still interested in using it.
* Confluence not having support for Git or some similar version control system or pull-request like process support, making everyone to afraid to make changes to documentation.
* Confluece, errors, just blows up sometimes when I go to save a document.
I get that the plugins issues aren't entirely Atlassians fault in some ways ,but in others they are. I believe their plugin implementation allowed people to way too tightly integrate with the core product, not working like "integrations" but actually having the ability to break basic work flows. It was a huge mistake.
I personally use GH issues and projects and the simplicity of it is really fantastic, when I'm forced to go back to JIRA at work, I just feel that I cannot believe I get paid to waste time wrangling these products into doing something useful.
- bombcar 3y agoJIRA is like Salesforce or any large enterprise “customizable” software package - by default all it does is expose all the organizational chaos and insanity.
- dzhiurgis 3y agoFunny because I'm mainly Salesforce developer who just quit my current job at least 1/3rd because it was stuck with Atlassian. Oh and I have no idea how can anyone use Salesforce either.