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What's a good alternative to Jira?
Goose farming
GitHub tickets are fine.
Jira is complicated because PMs want it to do everything. It can, but there's no good reason for it.
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BugZilla works for lots of usecases also
Yeah, jira is too customizable. I mean I wouldn’t give any of it up, but the one time someone let me have the reins, I mostly simplified. Removed workflows, removed customizations.
There needs to be better ways of defining standard projects and sticking to them. Currently everyone wants their little tweak and you can’t even pick out what’s consistent and what’s not until you run into problems
The only thing GitHub can’t to is structure tickets. It would be nice to link issues together other than by referencing them.
This. So fucking much this. I've seen Jira used to plan waterfall schedules, to track meeting actions, and as a relational database. And all of them claiming to be "agile".
When used for the right thing in the right way, Jira is a great tool. It is people who make it shitty, and specifically the type of PM who doesn't understand the complexities, people or technical, of their work.
Writing bug-free code?
Good alternative, not fantasy.
Now you're being silly.
Once I worked at a place that had its own in-house project management software. It actually worked rather well. Part of the problem is that every company has its own process and Jira and the like try to accommodate all of them and it ends up being a jumbled mess that doesn't fit anyone's actual process. It's like trying to fit a tesseract-shaped peg into a round hole. But companies don't like to spend money on developing their own software so that's what we end up with.
Probably controversial, but I like Notion for this.
it's easy to customize properties, moving issues around is smooth, and writing inside a page feels natural to me.
Requestracker
I liked YouTrack. Only used it as a dev, not a manager or tech support though. But from what I saw, everyone seemed at least OK with it and some people were downright happy to use it.
It's free for up to 10 users and available as a docker image, in case you want to try it out before committing, or pitching it to higher-ups. Cloud version is available too of course.
They are raising prices in October though. Not sure how it'll compare to Jira or how it does now, I've never had to pay for either myself.