Why Do People Hate Jira? 45% People Do (361 opinions)

Stupid JIRA
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it's really difficult to find what I want. It's difficult to find issues assigned to me, it's difficult to search. read all

by Lin W on 18 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I am not an extension of a piece of software.
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Being managed like a robot sucks. read all

by Tom on 08 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
The user interface is SOOOO kloogy, I have tried
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The user interface is SOOOO kloogy, I have tried to use it 7 different times, and failed every single time. It is such a mess in terms of productivity. On ... read all

by Amrinder A on 01 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
stuck in 1998
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It (like most other issue trackers) looks like it got stuck in 1998. Everything is soooo cumbersome, slow, and page driven. For instance, if you ever want to delete a ... read all

by blue on 12 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Crap UI + UX
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the UI sucks the UX sucks and it feels like it was designed in the 90s. read all

by Corel V on 16 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Until today I was thinking that Atlassian was
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Until today I was thinking that Atlassian was cool. but know they are another microsoft for me. Slow as hell, and so damn fugly, it's like working with Word perfect ... read all

by Luis on 01 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
JIRA is a maze you get lost in every time.
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JIRA's user interface is confusing and frustrating and slow. Add these three characteristics together and you get classic IT jargon like sucks, pain in the ass, rotten day at the ... read all

by PoliceAgainstCrapUserInterfaces J on 05 May - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Jira/Confluence OnDemand is a tease
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The plugins you really need are only available on the downloaded version, not in OnDemand. So they recommend that serious users switch to the downloaded version. On the other hand, ... read all

by LobsterNinja on 10 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's like being stuck in a department store where
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It's like being stuck in a department store where everything is just randomly flung onto racks and shelves and the price tag on each item actually refers to the price ... read all

by Goody on 08 Mar - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Debian just isn't built to install proprietary app
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On Linux, you just don't install proprietary software. It's never easy to get updates, it never plays nice with your setup. read all

by Niko-9540f3 on 13 Nov - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Oh why did I even think I could use a tab
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It's impossible to work in multiple tabs in jira. Oh, you want to have multiple searches active at once? No, f you, I'm going to jam everything I can in ... read all

by Richie on 16 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
JIRA hinders rather than helps
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You loose track too easily, then people use it as a defence when work has not been done. read all

by David on 19 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
JIRA and Agile suck
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I find the JIRA interface to be extremely frustrating. Plus, we are using Agile (aka Greenhopper) which feels like it was wedged in and poorly integrated. Atlassian bought Greenhopper...but never ... read all

by Randar on 19 Jul - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Redmond is calling...
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It consumes 400MB out of the box?! Are you serious?! Why in the world would I ever use a bug-tracker that essentially requires a dedicated server in order to function ... read all

by Brian on 20 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Jira is a ticket management system, not a project
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Jira is a ticket management system, not a project management system - without scheduling based on resource available time, it's just a way to track where time went, not useful ... read all

by Michael P on 20 Jan - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I am a sysadmin... I
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I am a sysadmin... I run a Jira server... Atlassian don't bother fixing critical bugs that affect syadmins. Their priority system for bugfixing will rate a spelling mistake above a ... read all

by User-471olt on 14 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Generally impossible to work with. You can spend
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Generally impossible to work with. You can spend hours trying to find information on a ticket only to find out it's hidden in some obscure ui-tab barely visible and completely ... read all

by trbs on 19 Dec - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
For all of you who do no like JIRA (myself
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For all of you who do no like JIRA (myself included) I would invite you to evaluate Endeavour ALM. http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net/ read all

by Ezequiel C on 07 Nov - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I profoundly hate JIRA because it is ill
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I profoundly hate JIRA because it is ill conceived, non-intuitive and adds much time to my management of issues. It is a loathsome pain. Try adding/removing columns from a filter ... read all

by User-170tig on 14 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
We dropped Jira and developed our own system with
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We dropped Jira and developed our own system with 14 more modules to handle SQA, Timesheets, DB Scripts, Applications, Configuration Management, Change management, Tier one support, Custom Summary reports, release ... read all

by ISUntangle on 15 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag