Show HN: Plan/manage complex projects as a graph of dependencies
twigtask.com
twigtask.com
It's (yet another) project management tool built out of frustration with JIRA. When planning out engineering projects I'd often get together with my team to whiteboard a graph of what depends on what, so we'd know what we can work on next concurrently. But entering those tasks into JIRA and setting up dependencies would take longer than the whiteboarding session itself.
There are a lot of things I'd like to do with it, but I thought it was time to share it with the world first and see if there's any interest in it.
Some future ideas:
- Simultaneous collaboration/multiplayer mode
- Assigning loose estimated ranges for each task's time, then using Monte Carlo to estimate the time to complete a goal.
- Loose priorities
- Kanban (that can automatically pop new tasks into todo when they're unblocked)
- Mobile support
- JIRA exportTwigTask is more about capturing tasks that _can't_ be done until something else is done. For example, you can't build the authentication flow until you've created a table for user accounts. And, you can't release the project until the authentication flow is done.
This is the first time I've seen Scapple, it's very interesting and a really similar concept. The main difference seems that TwigTask is designed specifically for task dependencies, rather than general mindmapping and note linking.