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Simons: PMs will directly ship code via AI instead of Jira tickets
“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…”
Willison: StrongDM used coding agents to simulate Slack, Jira, and Okta APIs
“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…”
Perri: Jira does not work for enterprise-wide product roadmaps
“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.”
Henrickson: Only quarterly planning and Jira tracking need organization-wide unification
“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.”
Cagan: Feature-team PMs operate essentially as project managers
“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…”
Simons: Prompt AI coding tools like writing Linear tickets for developers
“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…”
Lenny Rachitsky: Linear is the top tool users want instead of Jira
“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.”
Raviv: AI writes user stories well, but humans must architect task breakdown
“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…”
Crusson: Atlassian bet HipChat could expand from tech teams into business
“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…”
Jira leadership holds weekly 'Fight Club' meetings for direct product conflict
“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.”
Miller: Trello is best for ideation and discovery; Jira suits task breakdown
“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…”
Cook: Jira operates as a platform underlying four distinct Atlassian products
“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.”
Cook: Jira product managers use biweekly peer groups to review rough drafts
“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…”