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0 pointsrjzzleep3y ago0 comments

It's the same reason why Jira is so popular. CIOs recommend it to each other, because nobody wants to admit they made a mistake and that it wasn't as easy to integrate in the end after all. It's like getting a nose surgery and telling all your friends to get one as well. In most cases people look worse afterwards.

It's funny to see people here defending SAP, because the way I see even the smaller shops that did bend to SAP's will ended up with much of the same problems but with less much to address them and on top of that, much like other enterprise grade ERPs they had to spend a lot of money on infrastructure to process only a few RPS while struggling with high availability.

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theshrike793y ago

Jira is perfectly fine, especially if you self-host it so you're not limited by the crappy Atlassian cloud server capacity.

BUT the problem is that Jira is infinitely configurable. Add 20+ projects with 20+ project managers/leads who want to do things Their Way and you've got a clusterfuck on your hands. Every project has different terminology, different workflows and different ways of handling the same types of projects.

What Jira needs is a single (benevolent) dictator who is the gatekeeper of adding new workflows, tags etc. Then it works.

tut-urut-utut3y ago

No, Jira is popular because it's flexible. You can customize Jira to fit any process. That flexibility comes with a price tag, which is performance. SAP is a complete opposite, a truly inflexible “my way or highway” type of system.

KptMarchewa3y ago

Going to copy my older comment:

One very large video game studio has tons of automation for Jira. Imagine someone deciding to add new weapon. The automation creates 100s of tasks for concept artists, 3d artists, animators, sound artists, software developers with complex dependencies better those. Most importantly, automation creates multiple QA steps for each element of completed work.

The same exists for levels, enemies, quests and tons of other elements.

I would not be surprised if a lot of studios had similar workflows.

Matl3y ago

That may be true for certain industries, but a lot of shops work on CRUD apps and use Jira in its fairly stock configuration. Linear or something like that could do the same job for them just fine.

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