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Re:I Fucking Hate Jira (2022) by jjav on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:59PM (#39377306)
> I always wonder how much of this sort of thing is disdain for the specific tool vs. disdain for what working in a mid-to-large org. is like and the overhead it usually brings with it.

I used to work in a largish public company (40K+ people). They had a wonderfully functional and flexible bug tracking system.

So no, at least in my experience one can be in a large org and enjoy your bug tracking tool, nothing to do with the overhead of a large org.

But jira, it is beyond awful.

Re:I Fucking Hate Jira (2022) by warbaker on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:00PM (#39377313)
What was the tool?
Re:I Fucking Hate Jira (2022) by jjav on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:45PM (#39377692)
A custom tool built in-house.

The current era really overestimates the benefit of using third-party cookie cutter tools. Yes they save on development cost of course. But you're stuck with something that has a million complexities you don't need and that is mostly terrible for everyone. So you pay in an infinite stream of small annoyances which add up.

There's a lot of value in building in-house tools targeted to work exactly like your team works with zero extra complexity.

And look at all the years-and-years-and-years-old jira feature requests that atlassian never bothers to implement and you have to suffer with mediocre workarounds. With an in-house tool you change it in an afternoon to do exactly what you need.

It's not for every company but companies of enough size to support building in-house tools should really give it more consideration.