>I use JIRA often. I'm in a team lead position where I have 4 other developers on my team and use it to manage sprints, scrums, timesheets, etc.

It is starting to get pretty much the same on my end.

>I think the concept for the tool is good - but the tool itself isn't particular high quality. Yes, it gets slow very quickly.

For a while, I thought this was my perception only. Thanks for sharing it. Technical team confirms they can add indexes, probably additional ones as already supplied in the basic support. We will have to see how it goes.

>Then again, I'm not a great fan of Agile or the backwards thinking of most implementations of it - and therefore have a sour taste in my mouth and am quite negative about the whole thing.

I have to agree on that. However, I am, we are, also bound to corporate policies and I see many good things in there. But, when I compare it to what I can do in Word, this creates a differential of an extra significative work load on a yearly basis. Having said that, it balances, probably, by the extra metrics and managing we can collect.

This is a new revolution on how corporates do those things during these days. So, I am sure they will evolve their products as well towards those directions. For me, when I need information, I need it now. Unfortunately, so far, it is not exactly that. But, I have been told great things about it and how this can be optimized. So, again, we will wait and see. The more I use those products, the more I like them. But, I can't get any power out of it, so far, as per what I was used to do.