Re:The Process Is Not the Product. The New Agile Anti-Manifesto
by lmm on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:57AM
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> there is no reason why each transition in the workflow couldn't simply have a corresponding counter-transition
There isn't, but you have to manually maintain them, and inevitably they get out of sync.
> But the same thing will happen with any other tool... and if the tool would not allow such abuse, then the management would not allow the tool.
Bad management insists on tools that let them manage badly, of which Jira is the prime example. It's not a bad tool in the sense of being badly coded, and on some level I can't blame Atlassian for making a tool that micromanagers love - I'm sure there's a huge market for that. But precisely because it's designed to give bad managers what they want first and foremost, it's a red flag in a working environment.
There isn't, but you have to manually maintain them, and inevitably they get out of sync.
> But the same thing will happen with any other tool... and if the tool would not allow such abuse, then the management would not allow the tool.
Bad management insists on tools that let them manage badly, of which Jira is the prime example. It's not a bad tool in the sense of being badly coded, and on some level I can't blame Atlassian for making a tool that micromanagers love - I'm sure there's a huge market for that. But precisely because it's designed to give bad managers what they want first and foremost, it's a red flag in a working environment.