Ask HN: Am I the Only One?

6 points by devlife 4 years ago | 4 comments

I am feeling more and more frustrated with the way things are done these days. I find project management done using JIRA to be a complete drag on productivity, creativity and quality. The entire way of working seems like an assembly line and the daily answer to "are we there yet?" is highly counter productive.

GianFabien 4 years ago |

Project management tools are not intrinsically evil. It is the managements that abuse those tools that are the problem. Often the same people who set the budget and deadline before the project/product was even properly scoped.

MattGaiser 4 years ago |

I wouldn't mind it if it were high level and devs were given time to work. Let Jira be the master list of requirements. Annoying, but necessary.

The problem is the daily standup/daily metronome.

devlife 4 years ago | |

The standups are beyond hopeless. Grossly inefficient way of getting an update every day. we have not learned anything.

verdverm 4 years ago |

It's more about how you use More and run startups. They are not bad in their own right, and if done well, enhance development and productivity for teams