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I can't not respect them.
this level of fun and joy for their craft is nothing but commendable
this level of fun and joy for their craft is nothing but commendable
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So much hate for JIRA in the comments here. JIRA is just a tool. It is only as evil as your studio's production processes allow it to be. If you hate JIRA, you really hate your studio's production process.
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Agreed, it’s entirely dependent on the pipeline. Jira is far and away my favorite. I’ve worked under some nightmare processes and proprietary tooling. The former ALWAYS impacts the latter.
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Jira is worse than any of its competitors that I tried. It's not so much that it's evil, it's just a mess that causes more problems than it solves.
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I’m glad their development process has been so joyous and fulfilling for them, but…lol. All the same, it’s nice to get an “infinite time and money” project every now and then. This is the indie GTA VI.
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I worked in QA for a bit with Jira and I'm a little confused. How else do people track bugs? Or is this aimed more towards the non-bug tracking aspects of these things?
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Something is going on in #SouthDakota. Which notably was notorious white supremacist, #KristiNoem (`s) state. Where she was Governor before she was given DHS to turn into her own Nazi PoPo force.
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Funny, because I love having JIRA tickets, at least in a well maintained production environment. Shows me dependencies (like, are the VFX of that asset still WIP or can I work with final visuals now?), who is the game designer if I have questions etc. etc. And it helps keeping my ADHD at bay ...
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I mean, guilty as charged! But also I'm a small indie, so a to do list in a text file is good enough haha
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Not a game dev, but having worked for software companies small, medium, and large that have and have not used Jira (or equivalents): this is the dream*. ☺️
(* Unless the company's just a hopeless, disorganized mess.)
(* Unless the company's just a hopeless, disorganized mess.)
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Is it a hot take that Jira is actually a good tool, and that it's agile methodology and people going crazy with the setup that make it hard to use?
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Jira is good for commonly repeated tasks and not a whole lot more, realistically.
When I was an escrow analyst, it was perfect for keeping track of customer reports of unpaid taxes or insurance, for quick investigation and fixing. Since the mortgage space utilizes third parties for this stuff
When I was an escrow analyst, it was perfect for keeping track of customer reports of unpaid taxes or insurance, for quick investigation and fixing. Since the mortgage space utilizes third parties for this stuff
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we had to rely on them for the correct information a lot of the time. But most people aren't going to unprompted give their insurance companies the correct mortgagee-payee clause, so for insurance, our third parties might not even be aware you have insurance. And since they let US know what needs
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"It all came down to their development style, which may have been too much fun."
Bro what. These folks are living their best lives! They made a ton of money and are doing whatever they want with no financial stress! "Too much fun"--especially when developing a GAME--is not possible!
Bro what. These folks are living their best lives! They made a ton of money and are doing whatever they want with no financial stress! "Too much fun"--especially when developing a GAME--is not possible!
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I get that the prevailing idea is "studios have to release games or they die" and yeah sure that's true but you have to consider burn rate vs available funds. Just because the big studios are meat grinders that have to release a new billion dollar game every year doesn't mean that's the only way!
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JIRA is a side effect of a team getting too large and requiring more onerous management. There are diminishing returns and sometimes adding more team members just adds confusion these systems are supposed to address. Eventually all work slows as more time is spent validating work and tracking it.
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