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by Tenoke 3646 days ago
I definitely see where he is coming from but throwing out all management and issue tracking (although yeah, jira is pretty bad) is definitely not always the answer. There are plenty of examples of teams for which fine-grained issue tracking has worked, as well as counter-examples like this one and it is hard to take this post as more than a generalizing anecdote.

From what I read, it honestly sounds like maybe things started slowing down because 1. development generally slows down as a project becomes bigger (even when keeping technical debt in mind) and 2. Because of a shitty feature request. Yeah, it sounds like the PM didn't help either but it's not clear to me that they were the biggest problem here (although it is true that PMs can definitely be hit and miss, even more so when hired in the middle of the project's lifecycle).

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I don't understand all the JIRA hate, my team has 0 problems with it