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Agreed. Other than Linear, are there any task trackers that people enjoy using?

Octoth0rpe 3y ago
I liked pivotal tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com https://www.pivotaltracker.com) quite a bit when I used it at my last job, but that was 7ish years ago. Presumably it hasn't gotten worse. At the time I strongly suspected that it wouldn't scale past 30ish devs. That's more than enough for many people though, and that's assuming no improvements. I particularly liked that there are very nice cli tools for it: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/integrations/command-line https://www.pivotaltracker.com/integrations/command-line
- stickfigure 3y ago
  Can confirm that Pivotal Tracker has gotten better since then, not worse. But it's strongly opinionated and if you aren't using something very much like the Pivotal process, it might not work for you. Personally I love it. FYI a dozen people would be a huge team at Pivotal. 30 folks working in a single backlog is unheard of. But I hear Pivotal became a different place after Rob left, so I don't know what it's like now.
  - quesera 3y ago
    Interesting -- I've been using Pivotal Tracker continuously for at least seven years, and I don't perceive much change in that period. I think this is a good thing! For me, the most impressive thing is that Tracker manages to be simple enough but not simplistic. I've used a lot of tracker products, and I don't consider Pivotal Tracker to be particularly opinionated. That might just mean it works the way I prefer of course! But we do not do dogmatic methodologies, and Tracker is flexible enough to add zero friction to our process.
    - latchkey 3y ago
      The way that you use PT is opinionated, not that the product itself is necessarily opinionated. What I learned from working at Pivotal (with @stickfigure actually) is that there is the way that Pivotal uses it and the way everyone else uses it.
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beckler 3y ago
I haven’t used it in a long time, but I enjoyed Shortcut (back when it was called Clubhouse).
IshKebab 3y ago
Phabricator (or Phorge) is pretty great on that front. I think the basic Github and Gitlab systems are also all you really need. I mean Gitlab uses it and they have 60k issues and 2000 employees. I think the key is to have good search, which Jira does not remotely have.

I liked pivotal tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com https://www.pivotaltracker.com) quite a bit when I used it at my last job, but that was 7ish years ago. Presumably it hasn't gotten worse. At the time I strongly suspected that it wouldn't scale past 30ish devs. That's more than enough for many people though, and that's assuming no improvements. I particularly liked that there are very nice cli tools for it: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/integrations/command-line https://www.pivotaltracker.com/integrations/command-line

stickfigure 3y ago
Can confirm that Pivotal Tracker has gotten better since then, not worse. But it's strongly opinionated and if you aren't using something very much like the Pivotal process, it might not work for you. Personally I love it. FYI a dozen people would be a huge team at Pivotal. 30 folks working in a single backlog is unheard of. But I hear Pivotal became a different place after Rob left, so I don't know what it's like now.
- quesera 3y ago
  Interesting -- I've been using Pivotal Tracker continuously for at least seven years, and I don't perceive much change in that period. I think this is a good thing! For me, the most impressive thing is that Tracker manages to be simple enough but not simplistic. I've used a lot of tracker products, and I don't consider Pivotal Tracker to be particularly opinionated. That might just mean it works the way I prefer of course! But we do not do dogmatic methodologies, and Tracker is flexible enough to add zero friction to our process.
  - latchkey 3y ago
    The way that you use PT is opinionated, not that the product itself is necessarily opinionated. What I learned from working at Pivotal (with @stickfigure actually) is that there is the way that Pivotal uses it and the way everyone else uses it.
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beckler 3y ago

I haven’t used it in a long time, but I enjoyed Shortcut (back when it was called Clubhouse).

IshKebab 3y ago

Phabricator (or Phorge) is pretty great on that front. I think the basic Github and Gitlab systems are also all you really need. I mean Gitlab uses it and they have 60k issues and 2000 employees. I think the key is to have good search, which Jira does not remotely have.