My employer is evaluating (evaluating in the sense that we haven’t bought yet but intend to in a month) Jira and Confluence. It has been in active use by our Senior Systems Admin since he started and no one has really migrated to it. I kind of avoided migrating as I don’t want to adapt and become dependent on something that may not be purchased.

Anyways, We have a huge project going on right now that requires lots of communication among the various people in the department and I started using Jira…. and I am now officially addicted. Addicted to the point that I want to play with Jira more than hangout with friends or play a few video games.  With the integration of Jira into Confluence process, it makes it even easier to fully adapt.

Presently we have been using Trac as our company wiki, issue tracker, etc… I never really grew to it as I disliked so many things about it. Editing pages and transferring data to Trac from excel was always a pain. Jira on the other hand doesn’t have the same issues. In my personal projects, I have been using Redmine, but Jira’s Subtasks and Task Linking is the clincher for me. There is little that I do now that I can’t do in Jira/Confluence.  I just hope that the management doesn’t get stingy again and cutoff my latest professional stimulant.