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Atlassian is responsible for putting the guns in the hands of incompetent micromanagers, for whom the likes are Jira are the wet dreams they can only fantasise about in their alternate reality.


Project management would be perfectly capable of being dysfunctional even when limited to typewritten memos. Jira is merely the place where the symptoms are collated. The lymph node of development.


Yeah, but Jira lets them be dysfunctional much faster and more thoroughly, and with greater confidence. That does not improve the situation.


* "the likes of", gah, sorry


The "the likes of" phrase is, itself, overused and cringe IMHO.


nobody asked you, it has no such connotation in British English, and your comment is irrelevant to the matter being discussed.


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