[heisenbit]

Jira is only a tool. You can use it for reasonable lightweight communication. Or you can use it as a basis for defensive posturing, preparing for financial change discussions and control freakish micromanagement. If you have a distributed team and can keep management out of it and stick to basic features Jira can help still today.

Agile is about culture and the culture of the pioneers and early adopters was different.

I‘m seriously thinking I should try to go more the Kanban direction these days to aboid the story point hitting / fitting in ever shrinking sprint trend.