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Ask HN: How to Avoid Writing in Jira?

3 pointsby utkarsh_apoorvaalmost 5 years ago
Hi HN,<p>I am an engineer turned PM.<p>My engineering leads will not switch to other softwares (LinearApp &#x2F; Clubhouse).<p>I do not mind watching the progress in JIRA, but writing user stories in JIRA is a serious problem.<p>Here’s why: All of my thinking happens in documents. Putting ideas in JIRA can take hours, and it transports me to a non-creative world with grunt, data entry work. I do it. But it is expensive in terms of time, and attention sunk.<p>Is there a way to convert document paragraphs &#x2F; sentences in documents to user stories in JIRA?<p>I may write a script to do this and put it up on Github, but I am wondering if a solution already exists. It must, it&#x27;s a pretty common problem with most PMs in my network.

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jimmyvalmeralmost 5 years ago
First, I&#x27;m sorry you&#x27;ve been relegated to PM. Jira (and PMing, generally) is valuable insofar as it&#x27;s created jobs. But it&#x27;s like the five highway workers standing around the hole: one person to dig, and the other four to watch.<p>To <i>not</i> answer your question, I don&#x27;t understand your question. To me, a &quot;user story&quot; is the same as a document, just a bunch of prose no one will read.
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lwrmalmost 5 years ago
You didn&#x27;t mention what you are using for documents creation. Pandoc has support for Jira Wiki markup, and supports a lot of different input formats.
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Akciumalmost 5 years ago
I just leave a comment here saying that I hate JIRA :)<p>(Hopefully this comment will up your question and help a bit)
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