Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?

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Post by stratejos » Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

We face this problem as well. We are working across multiple systems and sometimes unable to take advantage of the various triggers/reports etc we had setup in our own JIRA, which meant we had to work harder to deliver to the same standard.

So, we developed a robo-advisor to deal with it called stratejos (http://stratejos.com). stratejos takes care of house keeping (like making sure the tools are being used as expected) and provides project analytics on top of this. We're currently in beta, would love to hear the problems people are having so we can solve them.

With the skype/chatting/etc this is probably something you just have to deal with, as someone else said, its part of being a consultant.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?

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Post by tedmiston » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 1:29 AM UTC

fixie wrote: post #19

ncallaway wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, this looks interesting. We've managed an internal sprint board with JIRA and treated the customer-facing task tracking systems as inputs and outputs of our sprints. It'd definitely be nice to replace our internal system with something that was lighter-weight than JIRA and had integrations (bidirectionally) with the customer-facing task tracking systems. I'll run this by the team and we may give it a try. One que…

Great to hear, I actually use Taco as a lightweight JIRA UI myself (along with GitHub Issues, a few Wunderlist lists, and starred GMail emails). Response on pricing above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565896

I'm really starting to think a startup that solves Jira's UI/UX problems would work.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?

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Post by tedmiston » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 4:37 AM UTC

apercu wrote: post #49

rwallace wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sympathize, but honestly, the fourth thought - that you don't want to do the data entry the client has agreed to pay you for - is a bad thought that you need to evict from your brain ASAP. You should want to do it. It's a good deal - you get paid the same rate for easy work that you would get paid for hard work. We technologists sometimes get bad thoughts in our heads that are variants of the idea that we have the…

You're right. I think it's aa timing thing. In June-August or December I'd be happy to get to invoice for simple admin work. But I seem to be slammed Jan-May every year (lots of weekend work, business travel) so it just seems excessive right now. You are also correct that we want to optimize everything. Sigh.

Have you considered a personal assistant for it?

If the output would be the same whether it was done by you or someone else... well, why not explore not doing it yourself?

Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?

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Post by SimplGy » Tue, May 03, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

jkmcf wrote: post #50

SimplGy wrote: post #46

A big text file, with a heading for each day. In go tasks, troubleshooting attempts, outcomes, links, etc. Then I copy+paste into github issues, commit messages, and wiki articles as needed (part of my deliverables, as @LeifCarrotson puts it). * No vendor lock-in, no lag, no migration issues. * Never have duplicate typing because of copy+paste. * Get a daily history of your work going back into time in a light, porta…

I've been doing this in Evernote for years -- one note for each month, and now I've switched to Quiver which provides a somewhat better experience.

Quiver looks really interesting, thanks for sharing. I love that you can export as plain text or markdown. The idea that this would count as "no vendor lock in" to me hinges on exactly how the text export works -- when exported, can I go back to a text-only experience pretty easily, or will I have 1000s of separate text files for each "cell". Sort of a tangent, but hey.