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What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibl

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

bradknowles 7y ago
I did a six month contract at Apple Retail Software Engineering back in 2013, and was introduced to Pivotal Tracker. I always thought that tool worked pretty well. I've heard good things about Rally. Trello was good and simple, back when it wasn't owned by Atlassian (the makers of JIRA). So far as I know, that's about it.
dsr_ 7y ago
Request Tracker (RT) is awesome. Does it look good? Nah, not particularly.
- oftenwrong 7y ago
  I have fond memories of RT, but it seems like it has largely been forgotten. It was very simple. One of the best things about it was that it could largely be used via email. The web interface was very fast and efficient compared to JIRA. One major downside: Its search feature was not great, so I would usually search in my mail client.
montroser 7y ago
We've been using https://subtask.co https://subtask.co -- it has 3 pretty awesome features which I'm baffled why Trello doesn't have: - You can break down tasks into subtasks and those subtasks into subtasks themselves, etc - You can dynamically group task columns by who's working on them, what is their status, what is their goal, etc - You can arrange what's to be done on an effort-value grid, which helps immensely when choosing what to take on next
- spurgu 7y ago
  Looks good but I can't find anything on their pricing..?
  - clbecker 7y ago
    Hi - (creator of subtask.co here) - Noticed a few signups coming from hn and thought I'd pop in. We're still in an early beta phase now and so pricing is still TBD - we're happy to have any input on what would work for folks though.
ZenModeRy 7y ago
Check out Hive. Really nice for medium sized projects.
snapetom 7y ago
I recently fell in love with clubhouse.io. It has more features than Trello but way less complicated than Jira. The biggest things I like about it is that it sort of strongly suggests to you how you should define an epic and a story. Tasks are relegated to checkboxes. This does a few things: 1) Since the definitions are predetermined, drastically removes the room for pedantic circlejerking by problem employees. 2) Bad devs can't pad their stats by making a bunch of bullshit tasks with bullshit time estimates to make them look more productive. Whether a story takes you 10 tasks of 5 minutes each or 1 task at one hour, at the end of the day, a story is a deliverable. The measurable then becomes how many deliverables did you deliver, not how many stupid tickets did you close.

What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products

bradknowles 7y ago

I did a six month contract at Apple Retail Software Engineering back in 2013, and was introduced to Pivotal Tracker. I always thought that tool worked pretty well. I've heard good things about Rally. Trello was good and simple, back when it wasn't owned by Atlassian (the makers of JIRA). So far as I know, that's about it.

dsr_ 7y ago

Request Tracker (RT) is awesome. Does it look good? Nah, not particularly.

oftenwrong 7y ago
I have fond memories of RT, but it seems like it has largely been forgotten. It was very simple. One of the best things about it was that it could largely be used via email. The web interface was very fast and efficient compared to JIRA. One major downside: Its search feature was not great, so I would usually search in my mail client.

montroser 7y ago

We've been using https://subtask.co https://subtask.co -- it has 3 pretty awesome features which I'm baffled why Trello doesn't have: - You can break down tasks into subtasks and those subtasks into subtasks themselves, etc - You can dynamically group task columns by who's working on them, what is their status, what is their goal, etc - You can arrange what's to be done on an effort-value grid, which helps immensely when choosing what to take on next

spurgu 7y ago
Looks good but I can't find anything on their pricing..?
- clbecker 7y ago
  Hi - (creator of subtask.co here) - Noticed a few signups coming from hn and thought I'd pop in. We're still in an early beta phase now and so pricing is still TBD - we're happy to have any input on what would work for folks though.

ZenModeRy 7y ago

Check out Hive. Really nice for medium sized projects.

snapetom 7y ago

I recently fell in love with clubhouse.io. It has more features than Trello but way less complicated than Jira. The biggest things I like about it is that it sort of strongly suggests to you how you should define an epic and a story. Tasks are relegated to checkboxes. This does a few things: 1) Since the definitions are predetermined, drastically removes the room for pedantic circlejerking by problem employees. 2) Bad devs can't pad their stats by making a bunch of bullshit tasks with bullshit time estimates to make them look more productive. Whether a story takes you 10 tasks of 5 minutes each or 1 task at one hour, at the end of the day, a story is a deliverable. The measurable then becomes how many deliverables did you deliver, not how many stupid tickets did you close.