princesse

I'm a tech lead in a small shop (around 5 developers and growing) and our company has recently been acquired by a bigger one at the beginning of the year. We've been lucky so far as we've maintained independence of process and priorities. We've demonstrated times and times again that our development processes and our talent was order of magnitude superior to their existing dev teams.

Management from the head company is currently in the process of signing us up in Jira without consulting with us. Their motivation is to be able to track what the dev team is doing and keep a log of the activities, with the end goal being to be able to qualify this work as Capex.

I'm close to the product owner so I can pull some strings there if this is a trap but I need to act fast. We've got nothing similar to Jira in place and are dealing with things without any dedicated tools, which means I'm open to learning Jira as I know our current methods will not scale. I'm worried for the following reasons : - I haven't heard good things about Jira, especially on HN - I'm afraid it will only add more paper-filling work to my team (or myself) - I'm afraid they will use Jira to enforce a specific process to my team (I do not expect to have admin access to setup workflows properly)

Any thoughts on how I should handle this?