"Everyone hates Jira." QA Workflows; Designing Discovery

Update: 2025-07-10

Description

Your nice host return to the complex and sometimes underappreciated world of quality assurance in the game dev space, and also explore discovery as a design focus. In this episode: Lydia is still looking for recommendations while at the Serious Play Conference (answer in Discord!), Mark hates on Jira and Stephen finally catches up to the latest gaming trend a couple of months late.

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"Everyone hates Jira." QA Workflows; Designing Discovery

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QA Workflows

Designing Discovery

"Everyone hates Jira." QA Workflows; Designing Discovery

Lydia, Stephen, and Mark

"Everyone hates Jira." QA Workflows; Designing Discovery