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Re:Why Jira Sucks by grogenaut on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:19PM (#25595358)
I've been the core dev on an 18 person team, I wrote 80% of the jira tickets and did about 35% of the code. 6 month of coding project to first launch. I used jira to remember. I wrote tickets for missing features, kludge's and bugs to be fixed, etc. I yelled at the managers to prioritize and estimate faster so I would know how on track we were or if we needed major strategy pivots.

Yes I'm an assembly line robot and the plant foreman. Jira and delegation helped me pull off both

Re:Why Jira Sucks by aprdm on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:41PM (#25596881)
Totally. I actually don't know how people that work in big enough organizations can possibly not like Jira (or a tool like it).

I would go crazy with the amount of things I would have to remember, their status, how to prioritize, how something was previously done and when, etc.

Re:Why Jira Sucks by aembleton on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:03AM (#25601866)
You'd probably end up recreating a rudimentary version of it in a spreadsheet