Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
Ok serious question to #Jira users. I find using it throughout the day strains and exhausts my brain due to the numerous links, UI features. And when I switch from one tab to another, especially to a Jira page, I suddenly forget what I am supposed to do on the Jira page. How do you all manage this??
Or is it just me??
ck
@liztai nah its a fucking terrible mess, everyone hates it but that one PM knows how to use it and its everyone's problem now
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@cursedsql welp at lesat i know my brain isn't broken or something lol
ck
@liztai yep, some say all the alternatives are worse and that might be true but nobody has let me use any for like 12 years so /shrug
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@cursedsql alternatives that are worse than Jira? Almost afraid to ask what they are lol
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@drahardja oh hehe why didn't I think if that. I wish they'd roll out a minimalist zen version of Jira or something
Dave Rahardja
@liztai I’ve thankfully used Jira for only a few years, but to me the secret is to hide almost all the fields except the ones I use *all* the time. There are dozens of fields I never care about.
ck
@liztai I wrote one in perl in 2006, used ones like Eventum, Gemini, and then some "Forges" which are basically more dev focused
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@rhelune Funnily enough I worked in the press and method 4 was what we used
Enola Knezevic
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@rhelune bwahahah
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@cursedsql ok I feel like I dodged a few bullets lol
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@drahardja I feel like I'm like lucky not to know Bugzilla lol
Dave Rahardja
@liztai I feel the same thing happened to Bugzilla (remember that?) It started out simple, then accreted an unholy number of fields until it became unusable.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@woolie oddly I prefer teams but then again my team didn't use any project management apps on teams lol @veronica @rhelune
Steven Woolgar
@veronica @rhelune @liztai at least Jira isn’t as bad as Teams. 🤣
Steven Woolgar
@rhelune @liztai surprised it scored that high to be honest.
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
@woolie @rhelune @liztai It would be last on any list of any length. It is a truly awful tool. So is everything else Atlassian makes.
Steven Woolgar
@liztai @veronica @rhelune you prefer teams over Jira or over hot pokers in the eyes?
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@woolie I don't know lemme think for a sec 😆 @veronica @rhelune
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@timorl it's the labels that kill me I swear
timorl
@liztai The way Jira is usually used is extremely bad. It’s a specialist tool with (too) many features, a good PM should be able to use a subset of those effectively, but a non-PM worker should preferably be only exposed to an absolute minimum of them by default. Jira doesn’t have any such UI build in though, and most PMs don’t notice how complex it is, so you end up being expected to do PM work in the middle of just trying to do your job – almost anyone would lose focus with so much significant context switching, it’s definitely not just you.
Best solution would be for management to understand how to use Jira, but that’s hard (and Jira doesn’t make it easier). More practical workarounds are to minimize how much you interact with it, just write the absolute minimum in the tickets, set that you are working on them, and don’t touch any of the other features. Management will probably complain that “this ticket is not correctly assigned” or somesuch, but crucially they will now be talking about tickets that are already done. :blobfoxmlem:
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