Re:JIRA is an antipattern
by FlyingAvatar on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:39AM
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This.
JIRA has been around over 15 years and definitely supported other workflows before it supported Agile ones specifically.
To me, it has felt in need of a complete rewrite for probably half of that time.
If you've had to do administration for it, or have had to dive into more complex configurations, it definitely feels like it's more baggage than product.
Alternative view: when agile software development features finally turned up for Jira, they still took a while to graduate from paid plugin (Greenhopper) to core features.
To me "designed for" always felt like "tacked on", and that they were somewhat fighting existing legacy object models.