Jira

“In a feature team, the product manager is basically there to herd the cats to get it now. And that's non-trivial, but they need to get stuff organized. They need to get stuff gathered. These requirements, you need to document them in whatever tool you're using…”

“Smaller teams, especially folks that are ideating, right, when you haven't landed on what you're going to build yet , I think Trello is a great product for that, for pulling ideas, for prioritizing them, for tracking how we're progressing through, like, disco…”

“Whiteboards were the number one most uploaded asset in Jira forever because people all get together and they write their ideas on a whiteboard and then they need to like remember it and iterate on it.”

“The only place I care about unification is one on the quarterly planning process and two, like everything does need in fact to be in Jira because otherwise you can't rationalize about what's actually getting done and not.”

“And, like, JIRA does not work for that, right? You need a portfolio tool to be able to roll that up Into something that makes sense.”

“Jira is also a platform as well as just, you know, Jira software, the product. There's actually four different products on top of it.”

“So we divided the team into these smaller groups, the peer feedback groups. And the idea is that they meet every two weeks or so. Somebody brings something that's in a pretty rough draft that they want to get reviewed, and then everyone's expected to get feedb…”

“What we put into place is something we called fight club... It's 30 minutes every week, and it's just for myself, my engineering, and my design leader, and we get together, and we know that we're going in there to have a conflict.”

“Atlassian was successful with a playbook, and the playbook was, we've got people in, like developers or tech or IT, they choose Atlassian apps, they love them, they start to recommend them to people in the business, and we start to see adoption, like bottom-up…”

“And I would say the thing that. We still really needed a person for was deciding how to break up this really, really big change into those stories. Like what is the logical way to split it up engineering wise, which my team lead did. But once you have that, li…”

“And one of the questions asked was, what tool do you wish you could switch to if your IT department allowed you to? The number one answer by far is, people want to switch from JIRA to linear.”

“I would say talk to this thing like you do a linear ticket or a G or a ticket. That, that would be my advice is like in our order and talk to this, like you would like, you're talking to one of the developers on your team. Right. And what that means is be spec…”

“How this is going to work, if you fast forward, you know, one, two, five years, whatever, like PMs are, they're going to be writing quote unquote, instead of just writing a Jira ticket and waiting for a developer to do it. The developers are going to be able t…”

“So what they did is they built their own simulation of Slack and Jira and Okta and all of this software they were integrating with. And the way they did that is they basically took the API documentation for the public APIs for Slack and the client libraries, t…”