When “JIRA” Replaced The Word “Issue”
Quotes from me and some former colleagues after a few years using JIRA:
How the hell did I start the day with 28 JIRAs, resolved 10, and finished with 35 on my list?
Get me a summary of the open JIRAs!
How many JIRAs do you have?
Ok, it’s confirmed, please raise a JIRA.
Without noticing, we started refering issues as JIRAs. Just like saying “I’ll google it” when I want to say “I’ll use a search engine to find some info about it”. JIRA might be going through the same phase of greatness.
I’m not trying to jump on any praising bandwagon, but I still remember thinking “Finally someone has done it right. A proper issue tracker!” a few weeks after I started using JIRA for the first time. That was right after some months using Bugzilla and FogBugz.
Related Posts:
Thanks for the kind words. I know I felt the same way back when I first became an Atlassian customer.
Cheers,
jonathan@atlassian.com
We use the word “Jirafication” for moving projects from other proces tools into JIRA
No offence to FogBugz but don’t you wonder why - after so many great things Joel wrote on joelonsoftware.com, FogBugz still doesn’t give you the feeling that you’re using the right software for issue tracking?