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I've always been happy with JIRA, using it successfully in large enterprises and in my own 2-person startup. But I know you have plenty of company in your hatred for it. As a tool for quickly entering an issue I want to track and having simple drag and drop across swimlanes for my development workflow, it does all I need it to do.

Can I ask what your preferred alternative is?

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We went from excel to vsts and it had been working great for a couple of years. We got some new product owners who forced us to move to jira. It’s done absolutely nothing but cause problems, cause friction, frustration. The user experience is non existent and inconsistent. Things don’t work in any logical sense. And it’s horribly slow. What used to be quick and easy in vsts is now painful slow experience. This is the first job I’ve had where we moved to jira. The last 2 places I was at were moving away from it.

JIRA and VSTS (Azure DevOps?) have wildly different workflows.

To me, the Azure DevOps way of doing this doesn't work in any logical sense, I can't find the simplest thing in the mess of an UX they have.

I'm literally stuck with

> Unable to communicate with server. Saving is not possible at the moment.

How does anyone actually /like/ atlassian products is beyond me. I honestly cannot think of any other software that makes me as frustrated.

Not the GP, but for software development I highly prefer https://clubhouse.io/

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