+Dean Budd Deano, you are my man! Developers think I'm on drugs when I tell them their admired Atlassian JIRA is actually a convoluted, hard to understand and difficult to follow application ...
I have to disagree +Dean Budd. I've successfully bent Jira to my will (or rather the teams will) many a time.
To be fair however, it's only been in the later versions where that's really been possible. Earlier versions are like pulling teeth so I can sympathise with one's complaints. The version run is often out of your control.
+Kieran Simpson K, from my last three months as an admin for corp JIRA/Confluence/FishEye, I got a rare chance inside view how JIRA. The more I've learned, the less I like the product.
Ambiguous concepts, definitions, inconsistent and not intuitive usage experience, too many features tried to be squeezed into ... all give me a bad taste of Atlassian products.
As a JIRA/Wiki end-user, use the product is OK, but become sour when you try to do something "extra".
I agree with +Dean Budd Deano that JiRA becomes a process enforce chain rather than a handy tool.
To be fair however, it's only been in the later versions where that's really been possible. Earlier versions are like pulling teeth so I can sympathise with one's complaints. The version run is often out of your control.
Ambiguous concepts, definitions, inconsistent and not intuitive usage experience, too many features tried to be squeezed into ... all give me a bad taste of Atlassian products.
As a JIRA/Wiki end-user, use the product is OK, but become sour when you try to do something "extra".
I agree with +Dean Budd Deano that JiRA becomes a process enforce chain rather than a handy tool.