The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.
I am sorely tempted to build a frontend so that I can avoid wasting so much time on it. Just a better frontend not yet another project management tool that will not be bought by management.
I don't understand the slowness at all, even if their backend and architecture is Fubar to fix at this point without massive work, they could have handled it in UX with non blocking loading states, backgrounding actions which were slow etc?
(Edit: also, every program for managing Bluetooth devices ever made.)
Can you give more detail? I've been on larger, successful teams without JIRA, and every time JIRA was introduced it was a net-negative for real productivity.
And since we are complaining about search feature I must mention Confluence. Like I've said you can query Jira with JQL but in Confluence you're out of luck.
Don’t get me started on editing workflows...
Replace your IT team before you replace Jira.
My Jira experience is that I couldn’t live without it.
One of these days I want to look into setting up Phabricator.
Not only was it really easy to set up, but I think we all enjoy our tools a lot more now too. I still contend that phabricator rules the code review world: nothing else is as good. The projects feature feels just as good as Asana but without the slowness.
We do still use GitHub just as a dumb master (phabricator imports from it), but I’ll likely invert that soon enough to use GitHub as a mirror.
This is my daily nightmare. We’re building a competitor to Jira [0] so naturally we want to allow people to import their issues from Jira into our tool. Integrating to Jira cloud is a reasonably good experience. But Jira server? Total chaos. We needed to dig up an ancient OAuth1 implemention just to get users authenticated and it didn’t get any better from there.
