Ask HN: What project management tool do you use for software development?

4 points by messutied 5y ago ↗ HN

Our small team is quickly outgrowing Trello boards, so I'm looking for good options for software project management tools.

In the past I used to love PivotalTracker, but it seems to be a bit outdated and lacking some features, like the ability to have custom statuses, as I'd like to have statuses like: "In staging", "Tested in staging", "deployed to production" (interested to hear how you approach this steps).

ClickUp and Clubhouse look like the best candidates from what I've evaluated so far, and they both have the added value of being flexible enough that could be used to manage the other company projects outside of development.

I'd rather don't got with Jira as it (in my experience) can be slow, and feels like overloaded for a small team.

What software do you use for managing your software projects? how happy are you with it?

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PaulHoule 5y ago ↗

I've seen JIRA installations that struggled to load pages (wait 45 seconds to create a ticket) but the JIRA where I work now (20 or so people) is hosted by Atlassian and there is nothing wrong with it.

mimixco 5y ago ↗

We use a combination of Codecks[0] which is like Trello but with more features for software dev. It imports Trello, too. Their focus is game developers but we've been using it for our business software dev...

For heavier documentation that doesn't really belong on a kanban card, we use our own product, Miki[1].

[0] https://codecks.io

[1] https://miki.mimix.io

kirankn 5y ago ↗

Try the Linear app. It's simple and does the job quite well.