What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?
it is kind ironic, yet pretty typical and very telling, that the slow as hell Jira is tightly associated with Agile
It's a joy to use
There was no directive other than "Ok, we're going to use this tool for now". Everything was self-organized within the bounds of the business/stakeholder goals.
I'm sure you can use either Jira or Shortcut in a manner which makes either tedious, but at face value we found significant improvements simply through adopting Shortcut.
I dislike atlassian products in general, but having some discipline with the config/workflows was much better than shortcut.
What do you mean by this? There's a section to comment in each card/epic/milestone and you can ping team members. Comments also sync with slack so you can get notifications there if you'd like. I don't have a ton of JIRA knowledge, so there's a chance I'm missing something.
They are useful for putting triage and debugging information in. Or even as a play by play with specifics so your team mates or manager can follow along with your progress.
Pivotal is really only good at a particular type of project tracking (mostly building greenfield features and projects), and absolutely godawful at issue tracking.
I’ll use JIRA over Pivotal any day.
I think I can count on my hand the number of times anyone has actually had a conversation on a Jira ticket for me.
It also helps that right now I don’t have tickets for my work, I’ve been lucky enough to work on exploratory/skunkworks work for my team at my current org.
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Yup.. at least fake agile... where every "sprint" is the same length and features aren't customer-oriented.