Jira Software Gets Better Roadmaps (techcrunch.com) 21
Atlassian today announced an update to Jira Software, its popular project and issue-tracking tool, that brings a number of major updates to the roadmapping feature it first introduced back in 2018. From a report: Back in 2018, Atlassian also launched its rebuilt version of Jira Software, which took some of its cues from Trello, and today's release builds upon this. "When we launched that new Jira experience back in October 2018, I think we had a really good idea of what we were trying to do with it and where we were taking it," said Jake Brereton, the head of marketing for Jira Software. "And I think if you fast-forward 14 months to where we are today, we just had some really strong validation in a number of areas that are over the target and that that investment we made was worth it."
With this release then, Jira Software's roadmapping tool is getting progress bars that show you the overall status of every roadmap item and that give you a lot more information about the overall state of the project at a glance. Also new here are hierarchy levels that let you unfold the roadmap item to get more in-depth information about the stories and tasks that are part of an item. You can also now map dependencies by simply dragging and dropping items, something that was missing from the first release but that was surely high on the list for many users. Atlassian is also introducing new filters and a number of UI enhancements.
With this release then, Jira Software's roadmapping tool is getting progress bars that show you the overall status of every roadmap item and that give you a lot more information about the overall state of the project at a glance. Also new here are hierarchy levels that let you unfold the roadmap item to get more in-depth information about the stories and tasks that are part of an item. You can also now map dependencies by simply dragging and dropping items, something that was missing from the first release but that was surely high on the list for many users. Atlassian is also introducing new filters and a number of UI enhancements.
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It's made our company incredibly profitable and improved the quality of life for most of our coders.
For their coders? Sure. The rest of us...? Don't get me wrong, tools are tools and many have good uses, especially when applied correctly and appropriately, but it's not necessarily the best thing since sliced bread and often gets followed like a religion. And, like most religions, well ...
Sweet! (Score:3)
Progress bars for roadmaps! And hierarchy levels! I'm partying like it is 1998 in here!
Is this as good as google maps? (Score:2)
-Does is have pothole reporting yet?
Cruft (Score:5, Insightful)
GREAT, just what we need... more cruft thrown into Jira, when the existing feature set is a total UX/UI nightmare, and half the shit doesn't work. They keep throwing features at it that don't play nicely with one-another, so a slight reconfiguration, and you risk other entirely unrelated parts of the software package to horribly break. On top of that, the experience isn't consistent from user to user, either... or even refresh to refresh. I've honestly seen more issues with Jira than any other web based application I've ever used. And their attempt at adding Trello like kanban boards has been a complete and total absolute joke. They're slow as hell, and shoved into the horrible "workflow" mentality already established elsewhere in Jira, completely defeating their purpose. Speaking of workflows, even as an admin of a particular queue, I can't even shove tickets into the specific statuses that I need, because it isn't "defined" in our workflows that a tickets can go from status "A" to status "B" - whereas in Trello, just drag shit where you want to go, and its instantly done. Just let people get their damn jobs done, instead of getting in the way constantly!
TLDR: Jira is the new Oracle. They can sell promises, and then end up delivering shit. That's it.
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They use their own font which is very fuzzy when enlarged which makes reading their sites nearly impossible for some people.
Re: Cruft (Score:1, Informative)
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We just started using Jira a few months ago (slowly replacing whatever antique IBM product we've been using, but that is still tied to our IBM code repo..) and out of the box, you can indeed drag stuff anywhere on the kanban board. When a top-level project group is defined, and the kanban board for it is created and extra columns are defined, that is where you can define a workflow of "item must go in col A before it goes in col B". Get your columns in the right order to match your work flow and other th
Re: Cruft (Score:2)
Why don't you just edit the workflow? Or if it's used by other projects, make a new one that allows all statuses to transition to all others, get rid of statuses you don't need, etc.
Yah Jira project configuration really sucks, but the workflows themselves have a visual editor, it isn't that hard to figure out.
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sounds like Jira is planned in Jira
Headlines that you will not see (Score:5, Funny)
Jira UI stabilizes at usable configuration.
Jira and Confluence editor groups annihilated in volcanic eruption. Users now hoping for consequent improvement toward a usable editor.
Confluence search returns useful result rather than 200 irrelevancies dredged out of .xlsx status reports. Film at 11!
I'd be happy if... (Score:2)
They'd just make a decent code diff'r for their review tool.
Or even a decent review tool.
They might chuck it in the bin at any moment (Score:4, Insightful)
what about full support for mariadb? (Score:2)
what about full support for mariadb?
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Jira is "popular"?...maybe in the same way HPV is! (Score:4, Funny)
It's been part of my daily life for 15+ years.
It is popular in the same way HPV is.
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As if alternatives are so much better. I work as outsourcer for a company. I use Jira for my own issue tracking for 10+ years now. The company I work for has, in that period, wasted a lot of time and money on 3 different issue tracking systems. None of them Jira.
In the end they asked me to create Jira generated output that they can use to import into their current issue tracking solution.
Once you get your head around creating workflows and such, Jira in and of itself isn't so bad. I demonstrated this to a f
Jira is good enough, but not popular :) (Score:2)
I don't mind it. I just have never had a good experience searching for tickets. It is both painful and difficult to search our large organization's JIra to see if a t