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

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

#51

Notepad. Or any other code editor. I wrote a book on extreme minimalist information management[1]. Notepad and git (along with the appropriate text tools, which might just be some shell programming) work just fine, as long as you know how to tag and organize stuff. Even without the stuff I wrote about, what do you really need to know? 1) What work is there? 2) How much of it is done? 3) Who's doing what? 4) How are t…

You seem to have missed the blatant self-promotion opportunity here. Link?

Fixed it.

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

#52
I been using Monday.com rather successfully for that past couple months, I'm using to track project work, sprints, bug queues all the way to using it for tracking my own morning routine.

While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles or even the integrations as Jira or Asana, I've found it more useful.

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

#53

Not a manager, just an engineer. I was happiest when my team could just get by with GitHub issues. It was super simple and really easy to work with. Eventually we used JIRA and Confluence, and it worked fine. Just make sure you keep workflows as simple as possible. I think there exists the temptation to add lots of constraints and requirements when creating and resolving issues, but that just raises the bar for getti…

"Raises the bar" is usually seen as a positive phase. Meaning you have to be as good as the bar to do something. I think it's more clear to say it "raises artificial hurdles that take away from focusing on quality."
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