HACKER Q&A
📣 utkarsh_apoorva

How to Avoid Writing in Jira?


Hi HN,

I am an engineer turned PM.

My engineering leads will not switch to other softwares (LinearApp / Clubhouse).

I do not mind watching the progress in JIRA, but writing user stories in JIRA is a serious problem.

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.

Is there a way to convert document paragraphs / sentences in documents to user stories in JIRA?

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's a pretty common problem with most PMs in my network.

  👤 jimmyvalmer Accepted Answer ✓
First, I'm sorry you've been relegated to PM. Jira (and PMing, generally) is valuable insofar as it's created jobs. But it's like the five highway workers standing around the hole: one person to dig, and the other four to watch.

To not answer your question, I don't understand your question. To me, a "user story" is the same as a document, just a bunch of prose no one will read.

👤 lwrm
You didn't mention what you are using for documents creation. Pandoc has support for Jira Wiki markup, and supports a lot of different input formats.
👤 Akcium
I just leave a comment here saying that I hate JIRA :)

(Hopefully this comment will up your question and help a bit)