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What is the alternative? Basecamp ?

sshine 4y ago
GitHub’s Project board, any simple issue tracker, text files, pictures of whiteboards. (Disclaimer: It may be harder to justify hiring people full-time to manage these alternatives.)
ilvez 4y ago
Article lists Linear. Can anyone share their experiences?
- buro9 4y ago
  Linear is gorgeous and satisfying to use, very aesthetically pleasing. It includes Jiras killer feature, links between issues, across projects. But... It can't sync issues with github, it must fully be the source of truth for everything. This made it a non starter for us, we tried but it just can't work when not every piece of work by everyone is in linear. Even Jira allows sync. It also didn't allow enough detail. For lightweight task management it was great, but when you have big discussions it was weak. Github is great, but is missing issue links and better lightweight planning like tasks lists that auto update when linked issues update.
- ajgrover 4y ago
  It’s been several years since I’ve used Jira so can’t give an honest head to head comparison, but my experience with Linear has been fantastic. Looks nice, has all the functionality I look for, enough customizability. If you’re looking for something you can configure every little bit of for a very large team (like Jira) it may not meet your needs, but otherwise I highly recommend.
tnolet 4y ago
Checkout ShortCut. Been using it for years now. https://shortcut.com/ https://shortcut.com/
- ajgrover 4y ago
  Linear is a better shortcut IMO
chishaku 4y ago
https://linear.app/ https://linear.app/
trevex 4y ago
No prior experience with it myself, but https://www.taiga.io/ https://www.taiga.io/ is often mentioned and on my personal bucket list of things to check out. EDIT: fixed typo
mrweasel 4y ago
There are none, because Jira does a million different things, not necessarily all that well though. Jira can be a task manager, a bug tracker, a service desk ticketing system, a project planner (regardless of methodology applied), a Kanban board, a knowledge database and so much more if you know how to configure it. That's also why sucks in many cases. You end up in these weird situations where you have a service desk ticket marked as an Epic, or on person on the team uses a kanban board, while the rest are just going by a different priority. Sometimes priorities migrate from you service desk to a SCRUM project and things make no sense. You can work pretty well with Jira, if you can stick to one set of feature and keep the entire organisation locked to one type of projects. There are some things it's not good for, I don't see it as being a good project planing tool, regardless of how you try to use it. As a service desk tool it's pretty good. I will say Jira is much better something like Phabricator or Bugzilla. Neither of those are alternatives, Phabricator is the closet, but it still doesn't do all the things Jira does.
sebazzz 4y ago
Scrumwise
9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
JetBrains has a full suite of Atlassian replacement products if you dont like GitLab or the Microsoft offerings.

GitHub’s Project board, any simple issue tracker, text files, pictures of whiteboards. (Disclaimer: It may be harder to justify hiring people full-time to manage these alternatives.)

ilvez 4y ago

Article lists Linear. Can anyone share their experiences?

buro9 4y ago
Linear is gorgeous and satisfying to use, very aesthetically pleasing. It includes Jiras killer feature, links between issues, across projects. But... It can't sync issues with github, it must fully be the source of truth for everything. This made it a non starter for us, we tried but it just can't work when not every piece of work by everyone is in linear. Even Jira allows sync. It also didn't allow enough detail. For lightweight task management it was great, but when you have big discussions it was weak. Github is great, but is missing issue links and better lightweight planning like tasks lists that auto update when linked issues update.
ajgrover 4y ago
It’s been several years since I’ve used Jira so can’t give an honest head to head comparison, but my experience with Linear has been fantastic. Looks nice, has all the functionality I look for, enough customizability. If you’re looking for something you can configure every little bit of for a very large team (like Jira) it may not meet your needs, but otherwise I highly recommend.

tnolet 4y ago

Checkout ShortCut. Been using it for years now. https://shortcut.com/ https://shortcut.com/

ajgrover 4y ago
Linear is a better shortcut IMO

chishaku 4y ago

https://linear.app/ https://linear.app/

trevex 4y ago

No prior experience with it myself, but https://www.taiga.io/ https://www.taiga.io/ is often mentioned and on my personal bucket list of things to check out. EDIT: fixed typo

mrweasel 4y ago

There are none, because Jira does a million different things, not necessarily all that well though. Jira can be a task manager, a bug tracker, a service desk ticketing system, a project planner (regardless of methodology applied), a Kanban board, a knowledge database and so much more if you know how to configure it. That's also why sucks in many cases. You end up in these weird situations where you have a service desk ticket marked as an Epic, or on person on the team uses a kanban board, while the rest are just going by a different priority. Sometimes priorities migrate from you service desk to a SCRUM project and things make no sense. You can work pretty well with Jira, if you can stick to one set of feature and keep the entire organisation locked to one type of projects. There are some things it's not good for, I don't see it as being a good project planing tool, regardless of how you try to use it. As a service desk tool it's pretty good. I will say Jira is much better something like Phabricator or Bugzilla. Neither of those are alternatives, Phabricator is the closet, but it still doesn't do all the things Jira does.

sebazzz 4y ago

Scrumwise

9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago

JetBrains has a full suite of Atlassian replacement products if you dont like GitLab or the Microsoft offerings.