Re:These are called opportunities
by AmericanChopper on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:20AM
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Jira is bad for a completely different reason. Jira is bad because Atlassian has grown from a company that sold software to its users, to a company that sells software to people who work in corporate procurement. Atlassian only has to impress two people to make a sale now. The person box ticking the features, and the person who wants to see the reports that it produces, and neither of those people are the ones who actually use the software.
Re:These are called opportunities
by VBprogrammer on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:31AM
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I worked at a company where they used a time tracking application (most of their revenue was T+M) which was so bad that one of the developers reverse engineered the front end API and built a new front end for it.
What you said about impressing the person viewing the reports really rings true in that case.
I hate Jira - but I think the main reason is just that it feels slow to use. A slow UI gives a visceral felt sense of lethargy / sickness, which I associate with the product. Is that a bug? I don't know. But I bet it runs fast enough internally at atlassian. And I suspect the PMs at atlassian tell themselves the same story - that its not worth the development time to make it fast. And that might match with the feedback they get, because all the users who care about that have probably already bounced to other products.