I’ve worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
At my last job we used a proprietary rapid application development tool to do … everything. It had been used for decades and it’s basically a designer window like Microsoft’s asp net stuff and pseudo code in the background for multi Plattform Desktops and web Applications. The rad in itself is okay: it is written in c++, reasonably fast and has node and js integrations. Buut as said the tool had been used for decades without major refactorings or rewrites or what not. So the codebase was a mix of awful ( you can name variables if so if if is possible ) and straight up outdated. I’d regularly find „commit-comments“ (the integrated vcs is also shit) written before I was born. It was a pain to work with. And we never used the js or node integrations since the new dev lead didn’t know much about developing outside of in said tool which made everything more complicated. So I’m kinda happy to work with js now.
Verizon Wireless POS. They went through 3 versions while I was there, and each was as bad as the last.
Anyone ever use Accela?
Mac OS and R
Second Mac OS, what the literal fuck! Brain damaged window management, inferior software update management and a bastard of a *NIX environment.
Recently started using OSX and wow, so much better than windows 11. I’m a Linux user at home so it’s nice to have a proper shell and none of the crashy bugs and glitches windows has. The UI is so much better.
For all the flak it always gets, can I just say I’m relieved nobody said JIRA yet? I think JIRA is great for what to does, but companies are just bad at setting it up right. Either they go overboard with restrictive processes, or they are unorganized mess, there is no in between. But that’s not the software’s fault. (Braces for downvotes)
I think JIRA is okay. I’ve used MUCH worst bug reporting software. The worst thing I can say about JIRA is that it is designed to implement scrum and IMO scrum is cargo cult programming.
I would say it is the softwares fault though. Ever heard of “convention over configuration”? Jira is like the opposite of that idea. For a task management app, you need something more opinionated and less configurable I feel like. Something simpler that covers most use cases and doesn’t try to cover literally everything cause that just makes it so complicated. Jira is the opposite of KISS as well.
I like JIRA, but you make a good point there. My company lets every team manage their project however they want. They go an extra mile to tailor and customize JIRA in whatever way each team “needs”. But having over 100+ teams in my company has made projects a nightmare, I have to write very complex JQLs and filters just to get the results I need from all the projects I’m involved with. There’s no pattern at all.
Yeah the shitty bespoke markup language and half assed integration of a WYSIWYG editor that fucks up tickets with formatting that is more complex than a few headers and a few lists makes it the worst in my opinion :(
Jira itself is fine. The problem is the “user generated content”
We used Jira at work and when the ticket was set up properly (stories, subtasks, etc…) it worked well.
Oracle Secure Global Desktop, it made doing anything in production take 3-5 times longer.
Oh man im not sure if i hate HPSM more or the in house dumpster fire my corp replaced it with
It was legal software called Needles. The firm didn’t use email to communicate. They sent Needles messages. I quit after a week.
QuickBooks, by far. Running that on premise (which we did before they offered it as a service) was an absolute pain.
Jira is literally a shiny keychain which keeps PMs distracted and busy enough so that they don’t start calling people into a million meetings because they have nothing better to do. It is otherwise completely useless and borderline nonsensical, and any perceived productivity gains from its usage can be attributed directly to keeping superfluous managers away from engineers.
Autodesk Maya 2016
Maybe you have heard about a software called Ragtime. It‘s basically a combination of Word and Excel. However, there‘s no option to export any files that can be edited with any other office application, and you can‘t open .xls/.odf etc files with it. Oh, and the best part about it: You can always only undo one action.
Salesforce.
What a fucking piece of shit.
And yet a lot of my coworkers have to create integrations with salesforce o.O
There’s actually decent money to be made if you’re able to create integrations for Salesforce. But using it is always an awful experience.
Installing Windows with SCCM… without PXEbooting them. I had to use 3 different flash drives for like 8-10 computers at a time, record the MAC addresses, set the hostnames and IPs and then kick it off. I did this daily for weeks.
Harsh. Pxebooting makes so much sense in a deployment setting.
Yeah, it was, especially when you have ADHD 😂 I eventually got fired because I got really bored with it and my performance suffered.
Their reasoning for not PXEbooting was that when they tried to before, it was too slow. They tried to fix it, failed, gave up and made us do it that way. This was the Windows XP EOL to 7 upgrade.
SAP, closely followed by IBM/Lotus/(I have no idea which random company they were sold to) Notes
I fucking hate this corporate bullshit software
