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There's a reason why construction and other projects that require coordinating with external parties rely on Microsoft project so much.

I'm on a project now trying to manage external customer cutovers and integrations using JIRA and its a dumpster fire.

A proper project plan with deadlines, lead times, resources etc would solve 99% of the problems.

Its just non stop crisis "oh we forgot to get get change submitted on time" - "oh this customer can't migrate until date x" - "oh this test environment is down for scheduled rebuild on days xyz" - all can easily be tracked to automatically calculate timelines.

Agile is fine at a macro level, but it needs to feed into a better system for real world dependencies and deadlines.



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