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I should point out that the whole Songs in the Key of Jira playlist is a series of jokes. On the one hand, each song is pushing back almost unreasonably against the existence of Jira and some of the associated agile techniques. However, on the other hand, they prick the bubble around Agile culting.
The inspiration for this one, other than American Pie (“A long long time ago”), was the fallacious belief that if we have robust Jira templates and really fill out all the details before the story is ready that we’re adding value.
It’s sort of the opposite. If we throw a story at a developer and haven’t provided the necessary detail, then sure, they’ll go off track, or be unable to do things and it’ll be really wasteful. However, the problem is not in the quality of the item in Jira. The problem is in the handover. If you didn’t have Jira, you’d have to communicate.
Now, you might choose to communicate in godawful spec documents, which is arguably worse. However, what if you just got people together and they worked on shared goals? They could just get on with delivering the project, and no template in the world would be better.
So, goodbye happiness, hello Jira (probably a Simon and Garfunkel reference, but probably accidental).
