“Bye JIRA”

OK, that didn’t last long. Last week, I wrote about how I would be using JIRA to manage the Find A Bird project. I found out that free JIRA has one fatal flaw. I can’t share a URL link to a ticket or Confluence document without adding that person to the project. I’m not an expert at releasing a project from scratch outside of road mapping and requirements documentation. I need as many eyes as possible on Find A Bird to get something to production.

My plan of attack here is to try out Github’s issue-tracking features. I’m following a few open-source projects using it, and I think it will work. If not, I have plenty of experience with Asana and Clickup. To replace Confluence, I’ll probably just stick with Google Docs.

JIRA is comfortable and familiar, even if it’s overly complicated. Unfortunately I gotta say “goodbye”.