How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine

Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by mathattack on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:47PM (#16053612)

I’ve heard Jira described by developers as “the worst except for everything else out there.”

Its put in with reluctance rather than enthusiasm.

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Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by raverbashing on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:07PM (#16053786)

That is the correct answer

And to be honest, it's a process tool. Dealing with processes is boring.

Jira is better than bugzilla and trac. And much better than some tools, constructed from manure, from big IT companies and sold for very high price tags.

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Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by hinkley on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:44PM (#16054180)

After years of using Jira I kinda miss Trac.

It's sad to me that they lost momentum. I think they got stuck trying to overcome tech debt and bug fixes and feature requests started to pile up.

From time to time I keep an eye on CommonMark implementations and fantasize about writing an MVP to replicate parts of Trac by composing existing tools. Unfortunately there are like 5 other things I'd rather do with my free time.

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Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by Game_Ender on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:31AM (#16058709)

Check out Phabricator, it’s written in php, but it has that nice integrated suite feel that Trac had. It also gets a lot of use including at Facebook.

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Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by subpixel on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:13PM (#16055710)

I've heard Confluence described as "Satan's wiki", and my experience with Jira is very similar.

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Re:How Atlassian Built a $10B Growth Engine by Steeeve on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:06PM (#16055062)

That's actually a fantastic description of Jira.

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