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Re: Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?

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We started using excel for task lists and gantt, google drive, slack and whatsapp (yes, whatsapp). We tried Trello for the Kanban view. Lately we started using ZOHO Projects. So far its been great. Especially after their recent update. Its got all the functionality of EVERY tool I mentioned earlier. I, for one, am not a big fan of using Whatsapp for official communication, and post Zoho Projects, we only use Whatsapp to plan team outings :P

Its free. Give it a shot.

Re: Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?

#44

1. Zulip (Slack clone with proper threading) 2. after evaluating Kanboard and WeKan we decided to keep it simple and reuse the Gitlab (issue-tracker) as a Kanban board (we already used gitlab anyway so this was something everyone was familiar with).

Just wanted to add we also use Zulip.

Before Zulip we used XMPP for a long time but found clients to be a bit lacking. We moved to Mattermost for a brief period until we stumbled on Zulip and thought; Dang, they got the threading thing right... So we switched to Zulip and it has been great for us.

The organisation uses Kanboard for all kinds of projects. IT development uses Phabricator. As a gapps / exchange replacement we use Open-Xchange. Actually we have been using that since it was open sourced almost 13 years ago.

Re: Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?

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Trello (with Planaway) and Slack We are looking into switching Slack to Hangouts Chat (why pay for 2 services when you can do it with 1). However we are getting mixed feedback from our test users… Anyone here with Hangouts Chat experiences?

We shifted from Slack to Hangouts Chat about 3 months ago.

It has generally gone down pretty well. It has nice features like the way it makes posts in Rooms their own 'threads', and allows the user to enable or disable notifications per 'thread'. Also, as you say, the cost for Chat was included with our G-Suite license.

However, as a SysAdmin it doesn't have the same level of administrator controls that you see in more mature products, such as Slack (and even Discord). In my opinion it is still very much in beta and Google need to keep adding to the admin and end-user features before it really competes with Slack.

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