| Hi Sean here. I work on Jira at Atlassian and I also met with Justin and the Jira Admin for his company prior to this article. I've also heard from him since. He was not consulted re the use of his comments. Generally, I'd encourage vendors to seek permission when citing a customer in marketing in this way. It's a simple respect that can be paid with low effort. I thought it might be helpful to share a few thoughts on the article. To do that I've added annotations on the article itself using Hypothes.is an open web annotation service. This lets us have a conversation right over the article. I've added a dozen or so comments, gifs and links to help add color from the Atlassian POV. You can view my comments and add your own via this link or find me at @seanjregan on Twitter.
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdzone.com%2Farticles%2Fj... Usually we don't engage in the annual articles by competitors that pin SW industry failures on Jira but in this case it seems a lot of what we've been shipping in Jira Cloud is perhaps still unknown. (And, this annotation tool seemed well suited to this sort of dialog.) Much respect to the LinearB team. Anyone working to make SW Development better is good in our book. Great products will stand out on their merits among the dev community. While riding the Jira coat-tails via blog titles is a common approach to generating traffic, I want to also note that Atlassian is very open and we're happy to partner with any vendor that can make dev life smoother. We partner with GitHub and GitLab as an example. If they can do a better job or a customer prefers their tools then it is on us to 1.) Support them and 2.) continue to up our game. -@seanjregan
Add your feedback, comments or Jira tips to the article here. https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdzone.com%2Farticles%2Fj... |
Thanks for the effort on the detailed response!
We have a core value at LinearB to empower the dev community and I can see you share a similar passion. The tone of my blog post came off more critical of Jira than intended and it’s great to see the improvements your team is making.
Although LinearB is not a Jira competitor, the issue remains that once story planning ends and coding begins, development teams are left with a major gap to stay up to date in real time to support the hundreds of micro decisions dev teams have to make every day. We are eager to address this problem!
It takes hyper correlation between Git and project management tools combined with a developer first mindset (not project management).
Since you are open to partnership, I will reach out to you so we can meet and pursue!
Thanks again Sean.
(I also responded with the annotation tool you used here: https://hyp.is/A_Sb1N2gEeq1_E8AuivgVQ/dzone.com/articles/jir...)