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GitHub Projects or Trello? What is your thing?

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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Marvin

Perhaps try gitkraken ? For those having issues tracking multiple repositories with git projects, I had a look at it today, really nice I admit. Much like trello only this time issues sync in real time. So you'd add, assign, close etc and it would be reflecting immediately with the repo

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miku86

Working alone: KanbanFlow - because it has a pomodoro timer.
Working with people: Trello - because everyone knows it and it has apps for all platforms.

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JavaScript Room

Noted. Thanks for the feedback!

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vicky209

Personally I think working with boards has its own limitations. I prefer a list and a board together to manage my project. As one of the users commented below, I've been using quire.io for a while and it really does help me with all of my projects. Actually I've known Quire because of a previous post on dev.to talking about how powerful Quire is.

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JavaScript Room

Thanks for sharing the opinion!

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Dana Ottaviani

I use Trello. I just like having a place to create a new board whenever I have a project idea even if there is no repo for it yet.

I got the idea from this article.

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JavaScript Room

I do the same for my ideas actually, Trello really helps here, it's easy and convenient. Thank you for your opinion!

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Nabil Kazi • Edited

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.

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JavaScript Room

Yeah, exactly. Looks like another great tool just popped up! Thank you for the feedback and let me check out the "clickup"!

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Vladyslav Yakovenko

Trello 4e

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Vikas Raj

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 🤯.

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JavaScript Room

Thanks for the feedback!

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Ali Abbas

I prefer Trello over Github Projects.
Its easy to use. The best part is Trello has their android app and it becomes very easy and handy to update and check my todos, cards and everything

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JavaScript Room

Thank you for the feedback!

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Ayush Gupta • Edited

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

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JavaScript Room

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...

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Supun Kavinda

I use Meister Task to manage my personal projects as well as work things. The only thing I choosed this over trello is the UI. In this website, it's very easy to find what you need and it has a pleasant UI.

I haven't used Github Projects though

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JavaScript Room

Thank you for the feedback, need to check out the Meister Task...

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Clint Chester

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:

  • Project Board Automations: the ability to have issues and pull requests automatically move based on whether it's been closed, reopened or PR changes requested was a huge draw card for our team.
  • Multi Repo Boards at an Organisation Level: you can have multi repo boards if they are part of an organisation (so either paying for the Teams subscription or an Open Source organisation).
  • Tagging Issues and PRs across multiple Project Boards: this is an interesting one to explain. For our actual "projects" we have going, we have really "thin" project boards. These thin project boards are completely driven by automations so no user interaction required. These thin project boards are just used to track project completion and where the requirement is driven from. We then have our Development Team board which all the developers work from as we track all our work through the development process.
  • Using Milestones for Release Tracking: we follow a consistent milestone naming convention across repos (the date). This allows us to filter our team board to identify when we are planning for things to go out.

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.

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JavaScript Room

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...

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Edison Ade

I love Trello. Tried Asana and Agile CRM but always come back to Trello. It is graphically appealing and easy to use.

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JavaScript Room

Yeah, Trello is easy in use indeed. Thank you for the reply!

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David Dal Busco • Edited

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.

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JavaScript Room

I see. It definitely makes sense. Thank you for the feedback!

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Fulton Browne

I used github projects for a while. I now use azure board and I am so far really liking it.

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JavaScript Room

I think it makes sense when working in MS environment. Thank you for the feedback!

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jmc • Edited

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.

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JavaScript Room

Thank you for such an extensive reply! Need to check these tools out...