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Ask HN: Best project management app geared towards developers
My startup is looking to integrate what we're building with a project management app geared towards developers. In particular we'd like to know which ones are popular among startups.
What project management app does your team use?
As always, your feedback is very much appreciated!
- aymeric 15y agoTrello.com is good to track "todo -> in progress -> to test -> to deploy" kind of workflows.
- bigohms 15y ago"Works on all devices Trello works on everything! It’s web based and made to go mobile if you need to. Nothing to install. Nothing to update." Not true, iPad safari looks like sh*t.
- X4 15y agoI agree, it's not an optimal experience on all devices and having a standalone solution instead of an SaaS hosted one is a lot better, but FogCreek Software builds awesome products admittedly. That's why I also recommend trying it.
- bigohms 15y agoSaaS can be awesome. Unfortunately this isn't a matter of optimal, it's just unusable. I hope they take notice.
- mcarrano 15y agoWhile I am not part of a company/startup, I have started to use Asana.com for personal projects. So far I really enjoy using it.
- aymeric 15y agoI see Asana's name popping up more and more often. What do you specifically like about Asana?
- mcarrano 15y agoThe first time I logged in, I felt like I have been using it for a while since I had no problems using it. It also helps that the team at Asana keeps improving it. They recently launched a calendar feature which I now have connected to my Google calendar.
- davidandgoliath 15y agoJira. Hands down.
- malandrew 15y agoWe use Asana. I prefer it over other things I've used such as Pivotal Tracker and Jira. From my experience, Jira is geared at large silo-ed companies, where you need to spend time defining processes. It's very inorganic. I liked Pivotal Tracker, but the whole agile thing proved to be a bit too inflexible at the startup I founded with some friends. It did work well at a larger startup of about 30-40 people, where a bit of process rigidity was kind of useful. It would be interesting if I had Asana available to have tried at that company. Jira was used at the first tech company I worked at. Waaaaay too process focused. Detracted from those who actually do work. That being said, I can see how it would be an asset at a large company with A people to C people and high turnover. These days I'm mulling a "pull request" based approach for certain types of programming tasks and everything else in Asana.
- dlf 15y agoHow do you find Asana fits in with the other tools you use in your development process?
- malandrew 15y agoThe only thing I miss is integration into something like Campfire. I would like to see integration with Github pull requests. I think that Github is far better environment to discuss development issues, because comments/discussions are inlined with the code and Github Flavored Markdown makes communicating easier.
- petervandijck 15y agoWe used Jira in an agile environment and it worked fine? You're not obliged to use every dropdown they give you :)
- X4 15y agoWe used ASANA for several months and it turned out that it god better by the time, it's still not efficient collaboration and the emails send out, kill a lot of useful time. -1 for ASANA from an early adopter.
- X4 15y agoHi dlf! Please take a look at software developed by http://www.fogcreek.com/ http://www.fogcreek.com/ Kiln, Trello and FogBugz are a good trio. Checkout http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ for example.
- dlf 15y agoYeah, I've seen it. It looks like a nice suite. Are you part of Fog Creek?
- chris_dcosta 15y agoI found Podio to be pretty good. You can manage several projects. you can download templates or roll your own.