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Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by fermienrico »

muzani wrote: post #29

Used many of them. None really worked well. As a PM, my main focus is just to get people to update what they're doing and trying to assign, distribute, negotiate, and see tasks and dependencies that need to be done. Asana - Amazingly good in the first few versions. But it started getting slow as they added more features. Back then I would use it even for trivial things like bug tracking, because the keys and controls…

Have you tried using Github repo? Kanban dashboard is excellent and you can use the milestone feature to add timebound projects.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by blattimwind »

egeozcan wrote: post #22

We eat our own dog food. We have a fairly complex piece of software called L-mobile PM (the marketing material for it exists only in German, sorry: https://www.l-mobile.com/geschaeftsfelder/vernetztes-projekt... ) The great thing about having our own tool (which we also license to our customers but it's far from our main focus) is the possibility to adapt exactly to how our company works. It is integrated into everyt…

> www.l-mobile.com

Your company's website is simply atrocious. It takes many seconds to load on my 100 MBit/s connection, the CPU fan immediately spins up, scrolling lags, opening the navigation / burger menu takes several seconds, further navigation again takes several seconds before anything but a spinner shows up.

Suppose I'm a prospective customer. If I saw your website, you're going to have a hard time to sell me your (presumably) web-based software, since I must conclude that it must be as slow and bloated (or worse, since it should have more functionality than delivering a static page) than your company website.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by egeozcan »

blattimwind wrote: post #33
egeozcan wrote: post #22

We eat our own dog food. We have a fairly complex piece of software called L-mobile PM (the marketing material for it exists only in German, sorry: https://www.l-mobile.com/geschaeftsfelder/vernetztes-projekt... ) The great thing about having our own tool (which we also license to our customers but it's far from our main focus) is the possibility to adapt exactly to how our company works. It is integrated into everyt…

> www.l-mobile.com Your company's website is simply atrocious. It takes many seconds to load on my 100 MBit/s connection, the CPU fan immediately spins up, scrolling lags, opening the navigation / burger menu takes several seconds, further navigation again takes several seconds before anything but a spinner shows up. Suppose I'm a prospective customer. If I saw your website, you're going to have a hard time to sell m…

It's done by the marketing team (probably a paid theme - I'm not sure). Our web-based software is developed by completely other teams. I agree that the web site needs work, they probably need help.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it forward.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by allworknoplay »

shivekkhurana wrote: post #28

My current company uses Clubhouse. ( https://clubhouse.io/ ) Clubhouse is Trello where each card can is synced with a git branch. As you add and push, the cards move automatically. This helps me as a developer, because the business is always up to date with the latest progress and all I need to do is follow the company's git workflow. To see the cards move when you raise or merge a PR is magical. There are other feat…

I second clubhouse. it's very easy to work with, not as loose as trello, not as heavy as jira. excellent integrations. it's a little young, but really a very good balance.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

aantix wrote: post #16

Pivotal Tracker. One backlog. It forces everyone to truly think about priorities and by its design, avoids the “everything is important, mark it a P5!” issue.

I really, really miss pivotal. I have to use JIRA these days. The access to information, speed, clarity, and simplicity of pivotal makes JIRA feel borderline masochistic.

That's also the fault of my process-obsessed co-workers who, in my opinion, often prize how we do work over actually doing work. Our workflows are hilariously over engineered. Even so, pivotal is great. I'd choose it again in a heartbeat.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by nradov »

CA Agile Central (Rally) works quite well if you need to manage a portfolio of many long-term programs and teams. It lets you coordinate roadmaps, balance workloads, and plan at varying levels of abstraction. But it's probably overkill for small organizations, and requires some training and customization to use effectively.

Re: Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

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Post by TXV »

I have recently discovered Backlog - disclaimer: due to being hired by the company, even if not in that team. If you google "backlog project management" it should be the first result.

I honestly like it very much. It is way easier to use than Jira, nice modern UI/UX, integrates with git etc. It has enough features to help with larger projects, and you can shut off features you don't need. There's even more to say, but I don't want to spam the thread.

I feel the product deserves credit. You can try it out.

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