This article was shared on my work Slack and it's pretty fantastic: JIRA is an antipattern - TechCrunch

It's clearly an opinion piece and seems meant to generate discussion, though only 1 other person wanted to chat about it on #general

The biggest part that caught my eye was:

Doesn’t that sound a little … um … waterfall-y?

It does seem like Jira's hyper focus on the little pieces encourages a waterfall approach. Each issue goes through a waterfall. A sprint is successful if it finishes its waterfall in x weeks.

What do you think? Does Jira help developers lose sight of the big picture, or is the worth towards making workable slices of issues more than worth it?