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I have found Jira to be quite a useful, lightweight project management tool for freelancing - but I have three principles: 1. Design my own workflow, 2. Make the Kanban the “Workflow Board”, 3. Everyone reviews the Workflow Board, every day, and pushes their issues from left to right, through the workflow. Each step in the workflow is the ‘kind of work’ that needs to be done on the Issue, all the way to “Release this issue into a Version”. My clients love having the Workflow Board just up on a screen, so they can see progress as issues go from left to right. My sub-contractors like having concise work units, well described, to work on - and more to the point, have gotten ‘in the flow’ as far as pushing things from left to right. And I enjoy spending my day making sure the issues are well-described, and in the proper place in the workflow, as well as collecting data, refining issues, and generally being the grease of the wheels. Of course, this style isn’t for everyone, or every kind of project - but I have found, if you can usefully describe the flow of work from “idea -> done” in concrete stages, and have roles and responsibilities well respected by those working on the projects (anyone can assign an issue to anyone else, or move the issue in the workflow, including backwards in the case of inappropriate completion) .. most projects can be run well with Jira, and any other project management systems which allow the description of workflow. So, I usually sniff at any PM which claims to be a replacement for Jira, while not immediately having custom workflow -> Kanban board mapping, and an immediate interface to doing that. I find a scrolling list of issues that can only be sorted by tag to be particularly irksome. How does EnkiTask compare in that regard, anyone know? |