Hacker News Reader

Its hard to define a perfect tool when everyone has even slightly different opinions.

For my startup, Jira+Confluence work good enough to keep us organized. And we know that we can change those tools to match our needs.

BTW. Atlassian, if you read this: We need a better UI to organize (big) backlogs.

View on HN

Here's my feedback. As a part of a small startup team, I used Jira for years before Github issues and Slack were there.

The company I work at right now still uses Atlassian's trio Jira + Hipchat + Bitbucket. They are great tools with lots of features but Jira's productivity is much slower compared to Github issues and Hipchat offers a poor user experience compared to Slack.

Seconded on the big backlogs point.

Overall I've been pleased though with the rate of releases for JIRA. It hasn't stagnated like many enterprise offerings.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com