You don't see majority of enterprise software, so your assessment is incorrect or, at least, not grounded on the facts. From my experience, most enterprise software I had experience with is quite good.
I'm trying to avoid software written by Microsoft exactly because its quality usually is quite poor. This is a specific of particular company, not enterprise software in general.
JIRA had issues with the design from very beginning. What we see now is an attempt to fix design by adding more and more features. But initial bad design strikes back and we see all those inconveniences, inconsistencies and slowness. I guess that initially they had better sales than development. Commercial success trapped development into endless feature adding cycle, while sometimes it is necessary to abandon existing solution and redesign everything from scratch.
While making conclusions like "Why enterprise software is so bad?" it always worth keep in mind that bad examples are much more visible than good ones. This makes observation bias and leads to wrong conclusions. Enterprise software is all around us and serves the purpose perfectly well. Just look around: we buy online and offline, use public transportation, banking, services, etc. etc. All of this served by enterprise software.
Thank you for commenting. I think you are right, that's why it is good to express what we think and get some feedback.
I think, I wrote this article because I wasn't fortunate enough to participate on a project which creates quality examples. On all my project we were limited by old systems and budget. We could not achieve the quality we wanted...
Additionally, I might be exposed too much to those 'bad' software/tools. In the country actually the banking softwares are really not that great :)
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You don't see majority of enterprise software, so your assessment is incorrect or, at least, not grounded on the facts. From my experience, most enterprise software I had experience with is quite good.
I'm trying to avoid software written by Microsoft exactly because its quality usually is quite poor. This is a specific of particular company, not enterprise software in general.
JIRA had issues with the design from very beginning. What we see now is an attempt to fix design by adding more and more features. But initial bad design strikes back and we see all those inconveniences, inconsistencies and slowness. I guess that initially they had better sales than development. Commercial success trapped development into endless feature adding cycle, while sometimes it is necessary to abandon existing solution and redesign everything from scratch.
While making conclusions like "Why enterprise software is so bad?" it always worth keep in mind that bad examples are much more visible than good ones. This makes observation bias and leads to wrong conclusions. Enterprise software is all around us and serves the purpose perfectly well. Just look around: we buy online and offline, use public transportation, banking, services, etc. etc. All of this served by enterprise software.
Thank you for commenting. I think you are right, that's why it is good to express what we think and get some feedback.
I think, I wrote this article because I wasn't fortunate enough to participate on a project which creates quality examples. On all my project we were limited by old systems and budget. We could not achieve the quality we wanted...
Additionally, I might be exposed too much to those 'bad' software/tools. In the country actually the banking softwares are really not that great :)