Has anyone successfully migrated off of Jira and how did you do it?

2 points by TheGRS 5y ago ↗ HN

I would like to make a case for getting our company off of JIRA. We fight this product all the time to get it to tell us the things we want. I won't get too into all the whys of that, because there are a myriad of reasons to hate this tool.

As far as migrating to another story tracker goes, I'm interested in how other teams of medium size (50 - 100 employees) have accomplished this. I'm worried that bringing this up without some kind of plan will be a large waste of time and that we ultimately won't do anything.

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ianceicys 5y ago ↗

You can't migrate off of Jira.(period). You can migrate to Jira Cloud from on prem, but you will still have to use Jira. Or you can migrate to Azure DevOps (yuck), or Asana (yuck), or monday.com (double yuck). Notion is nice, but way too immature. Jira is the best of the worst...but far from the worst. We're playing around with GitHub Projects...but it leaves a lot to be desired.

PaulHoule 5y ago ↗

I work at a place that uses Jira now (cloud-based) and it is OK.

I worked at another that had a self-hosted Jira on an underpowered server and it was not OK. (45 s to load any page.)

There was a time that everybody, his brother, and sister was making a project tracker that would beat Jira but I think everyone who has tried that has tasted despair.

Seems in the 2020s something that is part Lotus Notes, part Model Driven Architecture, part NLP and part ML would be a thing but we don’t have it yet.