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by egeozcan 2902 days ago
We eat our own dog food. We have a fairly complex piece of software called L-mobile PM (the marketing material for it exists only in German, sorry: https://www.l-mobile.com/geschaeftsfelder/vernetztes-projekt...)

The great thing about having our own tool (which we also license to our customers but it's far from our main focus) is the possibility to adapt exactly to how our company works. It is integrated into everything (integration and offline are our strengths) and when something doesn't fit, it usually takes a few days until a solution is found (or it is already implemented for a customer). It even has a lunch module which adds calendar entries in our outlook when we say we are attending a company lunch, and that is integrated into navision which takes care of the accounting side.

We also evaluated using JIRA at one point in the history. IMHO, if JIRA fits, go and use it, when not, you can bend it but that causes some headaches.

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> www.l-mobile.com

Your company's website is simply atrocious. It takes many seconds to load on my 100 MBit/s connection, the CPU fan immediately spins up, scrolling lags, opening the navigation / burger menu takes several seconds, further navigation again takes several seconds before anything but a spinner shows up.

Suppose I'm a prospective customer. If I saw your website, you're going to have a hard time to sell me your (presumably) web-based software, since I must conclude that it must be as slow and bloated (or worse, since it should have more functionality than delivering a static page) than your company website.

It's done by the marketing team (probably a paid theme - I'm not sure). Our web-based software is developed by completely other teams. I agree that the web site needs work, they probably need help.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it forward.