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Re:Why Jira Sucks by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:29PM (#25595465)
> Why do you believe devs alone define the "actual priority"? This stuff is collaborative,

I do not believe that, of course it is collaborative. Some things are emergent, some are not. Some can be neatly broken down into fixed length tasks, some cannot. Some are planned, some are not. Some are top-down, some are bottom up. Some are obvious business function items, some are leftfield ideas.

I'm just feeding back that attempting to mediate and regulate that collaboration via JIRA is a bad idea. A common, and bad idea.

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Re:Why Jira Sucks by grendix on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:08PM (#25595959)
It's kind of weird how the subtext to every conversation in this topic is bad management, yet nobody wants to come out and say it.
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Re:Why Jira Sucks by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:39PM (#25597995)
You're not wrong, but also "we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us". ( Marshall McLuhan )

JIRA tends to shape management into bad management. That is the grain of the tool.

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