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Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by ike2792 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:30AM (#41659541)
I used to think JIRA sucked until my company migrated to ClickUp. In general most of the tools can be made to be usable if a tech lead or engineering manager can tweak them to what a team actually needs. Usually they are left in the hands of TPMs or Scrum Masters who generally make the whole process too heavyweight and complicated.
Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by jraines on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:38AM (#41659663)
Yes, ClickUp was the worst I’ve used out of Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Wrike, Jira, Excel, Notion Calvinball, threatening emails, or text files
Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by EGreg on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:06PM (#41660074)
What would y’all say are their best features? The must haves done right?

Our team used Redmine from a decade ago, but people like all the pretty ways to drag items between columns or something

Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by fernandotakai on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:15PM (#41660174)
oh wow, redmine!

i worked at a place back in 2008 and we used redmine -- i even wrote a plugin to track worked hours so we could properly bill clients (i ended up learning rails because of this).

Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by Izkata on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:40PM (#41665757)
> Notion Calvinball

You got me looking, but this doesn't seem to exist. I kinda want to see a Calvinball issue tracker now.

Re:The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira by Izkata on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:37PM (#41665737)
> Usually they are left in the hands of TPMs or Scrum Masters who generally make the whole process too heavyweight and complicated.

This is what happened to us for years, trying to create a common process for multiple teams on the same jira project. Then the manager that oversaw those teams left and during the last reorganization we all split up into our own jira projects where each team could configure it however they wanted. There's still rough edges, like with how links are inconsistent, but overall it's been pretty great since then.