[debacle]

Centrally mandating the use of a tool is not a management problem.

When you need to try and account for where your time is going, there are two ways - have everyone use a slightly crappy tool that they loathe (mostly for its purpose), or have some sort of process in place that is less efficient with everyone's time.

> We must ensure JIRA usage is identical across teams, in order to ensure velocity parity

In real talk:

> We want to standardize our time accounting across teams to ensure everyone is moving as fast as possible.

How diabolical.

The bemoaning of having to do basic project communication is a symptom of a novice professional.