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by kelvin0 3430 days ago
As a Software Developer, working with Jira is just a pain for me. I just don't like much about it, the less time I spend using it the happier I am. There dozens of views of the same information, but just different enough to get me lost. I have to admit, I did not buckle down to 'tame' the beast. It feels like hiking a steep hill on a rainy day.

Trello, on the other hand I introduced to some colleagues, and the simplicity and ease of use is very satisfying. Feels like surfing on the perfect wave.

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> As a Software Developer, working with Jira is just a pain for me.

Said every software developer ever about every bug tracking/ticketing system ever.

> Trello, on the other hand I introduced to some colleagues, and the simplicity and ease of use is very satisfying.

Said about every new bug tracking/ticketing system ever. Until you need to do X, and we need to track Y, and Z needs to sign off before ...

The real problem is that most developers write shitty bug reports. The reason for all those annoying fields in the bug reporting system is that most developers won't include them without it.

There is a fine line between having a bug reporting system which is just sufficiently annoying enough to the end users to give just enough information to the people fixing the bugs.

> Said every software developer ever about every bug tracking/ticketing system ever.

Trello is not a pain for me to use. It would be for others, with different needs, but it's perfect for me.

> Until you need to do X, and we need to track Y, and Z needs to sign off before ...

For many people these don't necessarily get in the way. I've been using trello for a few years on some projects from start to launch, and a winding down of development. It doesn't get in my way, and the lack of features hasn't caused problems.

Sure, we could have gone with Jira just in case things got massively more complicated, but we were easily able to deal with the odd edge case by talking to each other, assigning cards or putting notes on them.

Jira can be configured into sthg unusable, Trello can't. But Jira can be configured to be nearly as simple as Trello, if not as much user-friendly.