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Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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> I sometimes wonder how much of how Agile implementations look is a consequence of simplistic tooling. When your team's work planner is fundamentally unable to represent the basic idea that tasks can depend on other tasks In the agile world it's accepted that a task that today looks like it depends on another task may not have that dependency next week. Planning involves scheduling what the stakeholders prioritize n…

> Planning involves scheduling what the stakeholders prioritize now that can be done, and whatever lands in the "we can't do that until we do other thing" doesn't even get scheduled. Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are two distinct processes people often confuse. Planning is about identifying what needs to be done, and breaking it down into a network of tasks joined by dependencies. Scheduling is figuring out wh…

Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are split into separate things by people who think less about shipping working code and more about counting beans.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

#212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Planning involves scheduling what the stakeholders prioritize now that can be done, and whatever lands in the "we can't do that until we do other thing" doesn't even get scheduled. Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are two distinct processes people often confuse. Planning is about identifying what needs to be done, and breaking it down into a network of tasks joined by dependencies. Scheduling is figuring out wh…

Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are split into separate things by people who think less about shipping working code and more about counting beans.

Shipping working code is a means to an end, not end unto itself. Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are split into separate things by people who think about and then tell the people shipping working code what they should be writing and shipping.

Re: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Not bad, but I still have to say that zenhub does it better Used that at an old job and it was the only project management software I didn't grow to hate. Fast, "built into" GitHub, and adds other value across the site, I miss it now at my current jira gig

Big +1, I used zenhub at one of my first jobs and I miss it to this day.

Its one of those things that I will forever evangelize for, because the one time I was able to use it, I had my most productive year ever. My github activity graph for the 18 months I got to use zenhub looked like a beautiful green meadow.

I've tried most other project management software. They all stink in one way or another. JIRA is a known problem, ClickUp, Monday, and friends aren't much better. I never liked pivotal, and its dead now, so doesn't really matter. And Github's projects feature is just too spartan to be useful

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