[jayparth]

I agree with your point generally, but this is project management software we are talking here. It’s not like this is a year old product you’re betting on. Dude even Asana has been out for like 10 years.

I will state this plainly. It’s laziness. He knows how to use Jira and doesn’t want to spend time learning a new tool. There is no risk involved with these anymore. It’s not a risk, it’s effort.

Using Jira is a form of organizational debt. He didn’t want to put in the work up front to set up something better because he knew Jira already, which is fine. But everyone on the engineering team pays the price every day now because Jira is awful. You have to decide, is it worth spending 10 hours on the weekend learning Linear or do I make my whole organization suffer? He chose the former. But it’s not a risk mitigation thing. It’s a time trade-off thing.

[maccard]

I've used "big" Jira, notion, small Jira, Trello and linear - Jira is still my choice out of all of the above. Usually the problem with Jira is that an organisation enforces everyone to use one Jira instance, but teams in the org want to use different workflows. One wants story points, one wants t shirt sizes, both want them to be "requirements" and you end up with a badly configured Jira instance that requires you to fill in a bunch of fields. JQL is great, albeit slow on large instances but show me the equivalent filter on youtrack for "show me all of the tasks user X had completed that are still pending review in the last 12 months" in an instance with 100k+ issues that is any faster.