As you most probably know, GitHub has now the feature called Projects which is pretty much a competitor to Trello boards, from the first glance. I'd like to ask the DEV community which one do you prefer to use for managing your projects and why? What benefits one of them has over another one?
Thank you for your opinions and have a productive week!
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I worked with Trello for a while and was very happy with it because it is platform independent. This makes it easier to work with people who don't have direct GitHub access, such as graphic artists and designers.
Personally, however, I am currently more inclined towards quire.io.
The reason for this is the provision of 'organizations' as a superstructure and a project-specific overview via a dashboard.
Thank you for the feedback! This is right, github is a platform for devs mainly and if a team has non-dev people involved in the project it might be a strong reason for choosing Trello.
I've never heard about quire.io, it's time to check it out...
It is relatively young in terms of duration and they are very open to feedback. So I could achieve through my feedback that they allow and display checkboxes for the descriptions of the tasks as markdowns. And this within a few days.
OMFG thank you, quire.io is unreal.
For work we have dived completely into using GitHub Projects. Only the developers use this as we have to work with a bunch of different teams using different requirements trackers. Reasons we've dived into GitHub Projects include:
For the volunteer work I do I make use of Trello and its GitHub integration. Trello was the best for being able to have back and forth conversations with the staff who weren't technical users / developers. Trello having a mobile app was also a huge win in encouraging adoption with the staff.
Such detailed feedback! Thank you very much for this! I think a lot of people here will find it very useful. Using GitHub Pages for dev teams makes even more sense for me now...
Clubhouse is awesome for software projects. It's similar to Pivotal Tracker, but the UI is nicer.
They no longer have a free plan (except for those of us who got grandfathered in), but the price is manageable and I'd recommend it for a team.
For personal stuff, I mostly use Things. Or a gitignore'd
todo.txt. I'm one person, and can only do one thing at a time. So tracking progress in a more granular way doesn't have much value for me. I just need somewhere to write down future tasks.Thank you for such an extensive reply! Need to check these tools out...
I' ve been using Glow Boads and it's amazing. There are a few features missing, but they ship updates in a regular basis
I use GitKraken daily and would love to start using Glo boards, if only it synced with Github Projects. It syncs with Issues, but I want visitors to my project to be able to view the project boards directly on Github while I manage it all from Glo.
that's true, it would be awesome to have github/gitlab integration to manage boards on either platform
Glo just recently created the option to make a board public, so you can share the board directly if you wanted to!
Good to know, thanks for sharing it!
Did you mean Glo Boards from Git Kraken? I used to use their git client some time ago but I 've never seen their boards (probably didn't exist at that time)... It must be having a beautiful interface!
beautiful interface? you bet! it's really amazing and, as now GK uses tabs, it opens in a new tab!
Good to know! Thanks for sharing it!
Github Projects is awesome 🤞. I shifted my workflow from trello to projects long ago.
The advantage is that your code and workflow will stay in one place. Also it's integration with github issues is just mind blowing 🤯.
Thanks for the feedback!
In my organisation, we use CA Agile central for managing the process. It is one of the most detailed and feature rich platform for agile teams and managing Kannan boards that I know of. However, I am not a great fan of it. Personally, I would incline towards Trello
CA Agile central (their website says that it's renamed to Rally), same as Jira, looks like a very enterprise solution focusing on big teams/companies. Trello (at least its free version) is oriented on (relatively) small projects I think. They don't have features to track milestones and overall progress, for example. At least, I'm not aware of them...
I think GitHub projects are a good choice if your project hosted on GitHub.
IMO, you can more focus.
Agree with this point. If the functionalities of GP and Trello are the same, it makes sense to keep the project's plan close to the codebase. One thing I see here is that if the repo is public and the author does not have a PRO GitHub account, then the project has to be publicly available (if I'm not wrong). But Trello allows creating private boards. This might be a benefit, I think.
We've moved over to Notion to manage kanban boards and other project management stuff. It's awesome!
Oh, looks like one more great option! Thanks for sharing!
To manage the overall project, not "only" the technical part, I like to use Asana. Specially when the information have to be shared across people with different background and point of views aka when all stakeholders don't have a technical background.
I see. It definitely makes sense. Thank you for the feedback!
I implemented Trello in my Team and everyone loved it. The simplicity and ease of use was its plus. But when you look from a Project Manager's or a Team lead's perspective who has to keep a track of each team member and each project, It was a bit tedious to achieve it in Trello. This is when we shifted to Clickup. clickup.com/ Has everything we need, boards, lists, Team overview, projects overview. Overall a very good alternative.
Yeah, exactly. Looks like another great tool just popped up! Thank you for the feedback and let me check out the "clickup"!