Friday, May 29, 2015

“It’s not usually a problem with the tool, but the tools using the tool”

A wise agile coach once told me that.

All of the Agile ALM tools do similar things. Each have pro’s and con’s, but they’re all pretty similar.

If the solution to your problem is the tool – you’re doing it wrong and you may want to re-visit the agile manifesto.
On my most recent assignment, I have a PM that hates Jira. Can’t stand it.

Can’t tell me why.


Having mostly used Rally and Version-one, I was surprised by how simple the filter querying is in Jira and my ability to generate reports to find gaps in our delivery process.

So 2 days after all the Jira complaints – I gave the PM  a few dashboards and reports that gave them better visibility into their actual status.

And that’s when I found out they’d never logged into Jira before.


Thus ends this story - Please return to title.