<story><title>Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development</title><url>https://linearb.io/blog/jira-is-a-microcosm-of-whats-broken-in-software-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensor</author><text>&amp;quot;Though I think of Jira more like a spreadsheet. Very useful once upon a time. Outdated now. Static. Manual.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This statement is so blatantly wrong that it actually put me off even reading the rest. Spreadsheets are stronger than they&amp;#x27;ve ever been and are never going away, let alone being &amp;quot;outdated.&amp;quot; Sure there are products that claim to be &amp;quot;the next spreadsheet&amp;quot; but most of those actually serve a different purpose: no-code app dev.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>Jira is a hot mess - I&amp;#x27;m genuinely offended in behalf of spreadsheets that the OP would make that comparison.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development</title><url>https://linearb.io/blog/jira-is-a-microcosm-of-whats-broken-in-software-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensor</author><text>&amp;quot;Though I think of Jira more like a spreadsheet. Very useful once upon a time. Outdated now. Static. Manual.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This statement is so blatantly wrong that it actually put me off even reading the rest. Spreadsheets are stronger than they&amp;#x27;ve ever been and are never going away, let alone being &amp;quot;outdated.&amp;quot; Sure there are products that claim to be &amp;quot;the next spreadsheet&amp;quot; but most of those actually serve a different purpose: no-code app dev.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hector_vasquez</author><text>I assumed the author really meant that using a spreadsheet for &lt;i&gt;project tracking&lt;/i&gt; is outdated, static, and manual. Which I agree with. But spreadsheets in general of course are tremendously useful!</text></comment>