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Comment on Ask HN: How do I get my PM to stop using Excel to track bugs?

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I mean, shouldn’t the bugs be kept closer to what they’re concerned with? Why not JIRA, Azure DevOps, GitHub Issues, etc.? I assume the code repo has some supplementary bug tracking feature.

Their “swears by it” just sounds like laziness or perhaps a poor UX in the existing tool. Either way, working in an Excel just sounds like unnecessary decoupling and a higher barrier to work with.

But also, it could just be a garbage PM. I’ve met tons of product folk that are in it just for the money and can’t ACTUALLY manage a team or product.

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