I hate Jira. Okay, maybe it’s not poor Jira’s fault, but I’ve always struggled with how rigid it can feel sometimes. Whenever unplanned projects pop up, a topic requires three extra back-and-forth alignment meetings, user interviews are rescheduled, priorities shift or suddenly scope increases (we’ve all been there), I’ve always found myself looking at this board with 3 ongoing topics, more subtasks than I can remember and having to manually update each of them to secure visibility. Sometimes it works, sometimes it sucks.

As a highly visual person, trying to force-fit the chaotic reality of design work into very technical tickets felt like fighting the tool rather than doing the work. Lot of time was spent there, and let’s not forget: time is money.