Linear.app is way faster and tighter than JIRA, but lacks a lot of features that I actually really need in my job:
* Advanced Roadmapping - JIRA will, given a pile of issues, sort them and fake-assign them to individuals on your team to determine how long it will take you to complete a project. This is way more powerful than burndown charts and cycles when you're planning a hardware project with a tightly-defined deadline. Without it I have to drop back to spreadsheets to provide any insight into when a project will be completed. It's especially important when the business peels engineers off the project.
* Time-based estimating - JIRA lets me plug hours in for estimates instead of railroading me into T-shirt sizes, which means I can actually use the tool to give an accurate estimate of when we'll be done. Linear requires you to calibrate your expectations by running a few cycles first, which makes it a really bad fit for projects that have a defined end date.
I think Linear has a lot of potential for teams that don't work to fixed deadlines, but for my purposes it's just a very fast spreadsheet.
* Advanced Roadmapping - JIRA will, given a pile of issues, sort them and fake-assign them to individuals on your team to determine how long it will take you to complete a project. This is way more powerful than burndown charts and cycles when you're planning a hardware project with a tightly-defined deadline. Without it I have to drop back to spreadsheets to provide any insight into when a project will be completed. It's especially important when the business peels engineers off the project.
* Time-based estimating - JIRA lets me plug hours in for estimates instead of railroading me into T-shirt sizes, which means I can actually use the tool to give an accurate estimate of when we'll be done. Linear requires you to calibrate your expectations by running a few cycles first, which makes it a really bad fit for projects that have a defined end date.
I think Linear has a lot of potential for teams that don't work to fixed deadlines, but for my purposes it's just a very fast spreadsheet.