The old generation of online project management software (see: dotproject) was awful, had no UX design, and probably was less efficient than a wiki. However, new programs like basecamp and thymer are much easier to use and add a lot to one's productivity. Certainly, it is much faster for me to create a thymer account than it is for me to use a tool that isn't meant for project management in the first place.
The HN heading is misleading, The article is totally NOT about using a wiki to manage a software project, only documenting a project. It's not quite the same thing.
At my previous employer, we used a Mediawiki instance for approximately everything in projects: documentation, design sketches, work packages, internal tool FAQs and Howtos, project meeting minutes. Bug tracking, however, happened in Bugzilla. We had a sophisticated naming convention for different types of pages.
In retrospect, I wouldn't track work packages and progress in a Wiki any more (instead use something that can actually add up the "time spent" column...), but the rest was fun to work with.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 19.3 ms ] threadThe old generation of online project management software (see: dotproject) was awful, had no UX design, and probably was less efficient than a wiki. However, new programs like basecamp and thymer are much easier to use and add a lot to one's productivity. Certainly, it is much faster for me to create a thymer account than it is for me to use a tool that isn't meant for project management in the first place.
In retrospect, I wouldn't track work packages and progress in a Wiki any more (instead use something that can actually add up the "time spent" column...), but the rest was fun to work with.