Ask HN: What are you using for project management?

[JacobLinney]

It seems like there are so many options out there, and I'm trying to decide what to use for my next project. (Just to be clear I don't mean source control)

[SerLava]

We use two great project management platforms:

1. Walking around asking people what the fuck is going on

2. Outlook

To wake is pain; I long for the release of death

[cauterized]

Jira with a kanban board for individual to-dos (we have a LOT of bugs and small change requests to track). Trello to track the big picture project pipeline.

Nothing beats Jira as a bug database in my experience because it really is a database.

But you have to configure it for your own process (which for a healthy team mostly means lifting restrictions, IME), and there's a huge learning curve for initial configuration.

Plus it can be overwhelming for non-technical people to learn to use.

My experience is that engineers grumble for a week or two about the learning curve, but if you give them generous permissions plus a walk-through a couple days in, they quickly learn to appreciate its power.

[vaceletm]

We are using Tuleap[1] b/c flexibility and good agile support

[1] https://tuleap.org

[gglitch]

My team comfortably uses Asana and appreciates its flexibility; but I'd rather be using Jira. Asana has one highly useful feature we never found similar functionality for in Trello: being able to assign a task to more than one project.

[welder]

I use GitHub projects/issues with the WakaTime integration, but most of my projects are open-source or the company already uses GitHub private repos.

Trello also works well alongside GitHub issues.

[TurboHaskal]

We put post-its on a wall and feel productive moving them around.

The rest of the week we stick to good old micromanagement. Jira is great for that.

[y1426i]

We use pivotal tracker which is awesome. We use labeling conventions heavily to customize for our workflows.

[mcdevhammer]

Also use pivotal tracker. I find it much better than JIRA due to its simplicity.

[orky56]

Used to use Asana but finding JIRA to provide the necessary amount of structure for me to be disciplined.

[nekitamo]

I've worked with multiple small teams that used Redmine. Worked fine each time, no complaints.

[anthony_franco]

We use Lighthouse App. It's got just enough features for us and pretty simple.

[dataminded]

I use Teamwork but plotting a jump to JIRA for more functionality.

[iyn]

Trello as a kanban board. Simple but good enough.

[crystalPalace]

My company uses Asana.