I have been working on a few development projects some alone & some with small teams—& I have realized that keeping things organized is tougher than I expected. Between deadlines, task tracking & team updates, it can feel such as more time goes into planning than actual coding.
I have seen a lot of people mention tools such as Jira, Trello & even Notion but I have managed with basic to-do lists and spreadsheets. I am starting to think I need something more structured to keep up, when things start scaling.
If you have used any project management tools that really helped streamline your workflow, I want to hear what worked for you. Also, I saw this jira online training the other day & I am debating whether it is worth diving into or if it is better to just start exploring the tool hands-on.
nextcloud (my own instance and federation with customers instances)
my own MX mail server with basically unlimited storage and individual project specific email aliases like (project-something@)
Many years ago I used to have my own ticket and issue reporting system, made in xojo… but well, guess what happend… since then I use glpi but mostly in customers networks, I do not run an own instance anymore
Jira is probably overkill. We use but then we have dozens of developers, along with project managers, supporting a half dozen or so projects/organizations.
Back in my consulting days we used whatever was free and made sense to us. Don’t even remember what it was now but I’m sure there are some lightweight project management tools.
