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Swanand @_swanand

3 weeks ago

All the opinions about Jira are simultaneously valid. - "Jira is good!" True ✅ - "Jira sucks." True ✅ - "It's the best project management tool" True ✅ - "Worst work planning tool ever". True ✅ That's why they call it the elephant in the room. Speaking of elephants in the room, there is a famous fable about Jira, where a group of professionals were brought in to examine Jira, the most famous project management tool of all time. Being so vast and complex, each could only touch one part of it. The Developer touched the ticket view and said, "Looks like a graveyard of half-finished tasks. A never-ending supply of bugs and tasks. Work appears faster than it can be done." The Product Manager examined the roadmap feature and replied, "No, Jira is like a telescope. It helps me see months ahead and align priorities with the product vision." The QA Engineer touched the bug backlog: "You're wrong. It's a landfill. Everyone dumps their issues here, but no one sorts them. I can't tell which bug actually matters. (the developer had already stopped listening at 'you're wrong')" The Scrum Master leaned against the sprint board. "Not at all. Jira is a digital kanban. There are custom fields and automation rules. We can do sprint planning here. In fact, as per SAFe... (nobody was paying attention anymore)" The VP stared longingly at the dashboards and charts: "What are you all complaining about? Jira is a telescope and microscope rolled into one. I see burn-downs, throughput, and velocity. The health of the company is right here." "Forty-six thousand dollars? What am I, an ATM?" the CFO screamed. There was no consensus. Only opinions. So naturally, they turned to the wise old AI. Opinions were typed into ChatGPT, and it was asked to evaluate and provide a result. "You're absolutely right!" said the LLM.