[hotnfresh]

Ugh, they’re busy bringing bad project management to GitHub, in a quest to make it suck as much as all the others.

The old issues + tags + milestones was perfect. Now it’s the same needlessly-heavy thing as all the rest, with their reimagined “projects” thingy.

But then again I’ve not once seen a PM embrace any version of GitHub’s project management, with the only explanation forthcoming being “it’s confusing for non-technical users” (fucking how? More confusing than Jira or Asana? No friggin’ way) so maybe they have to shit it up and make it hard to use and easy to get lost in or miss info in, to get any traction with PMs.

[WorldMaker]

It does seem a case where Microsoft dogfooding GitHub may be actively making it worse. They've done several BUILD and GitHub Universe videos "How Microsoft Uses GitHub to Build [X]" and their PMs certainly need all those complex features to track stuff and those videos are the closest to training materials on how to use some of it, and it is definitely a lot going on.

It definitely seems one of those sorts of "every system PMs touch is doomed to become unmanageable complexity" laws and GitHub "Projects" does seem to be exponentially closer to being "Jira 2: Electric Boogaloo" every day.