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Luis Chiappe
Courses Plus Student 10,636 PointsWhat do you think about Jira from atlassian?
On my work the PM try working with Jira, but I read on differents blog that is not really good even some people say that "sucks". What do you think?
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Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsI've never had a project large enough to need a system like JIRA, nor have I contributed to one that does. I know that the team that makes Minecraft uses JIRA for their products, and it seems to work great for them. And Minecraft is far from a small codebase.
If you're on a small project, the issue tracking that GitHub provides works pretty well. Even the Rails repo uses GitHub issues IIRC.
J Scott Erickson
11,883 PointsAs a dev who was stuck in Jira hell for about a year and a half I'd say that there are better options. But this is also very much oriented around how your team works.
The current dev team I work on strictly logs tasks and issues on github, and this works for us, some teams wouldn't be able to do it that way.
Some teams need the time logging and ticket features that Jira offers. But in my experience, our sales team ( who were the ones waiting on tickets to be finished ), never used the system, spam boxed all the notifications, and would just walk over to ask about the statuses on projects. Time logging was never consistently used, and eventually died ( why do I want to spend time logging into Jira and starting a time log just to begin working on a task? ).