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Best project management tool, IMO, is the tool that has no projects to manage.

We tried JIRA, Linear, now we are using Github projects. It is too much effort to keep it up to date when things are fast moving. Everything becomes stale.

At first look, it feels like this too will suffer the same.

The best tool in this space should eliminate the need of specialized PM.

PS. Github project has become surprising better in recent times.

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> The best tool in this space should eliminate the need of specialized PM.

exactly this, having a project manager drive tasks just erodes the sense of ownership in the team. the sense of ownership that comes from giving the responsibility to devs to manage their tasks directly is immense, especially during the initial years

I think the for fast moving teams, the eventual winner in this space is going to be someone who can transparently bring in product requirements and timeline requirements to devs directly than via some middleman

Also had a good exp at my last startup using GitHub projects. Very dev driven/dev friendly. Easy to highlight over-work, easy to have multiple views (sectioned lists for prioritization, columns for limiting WIP) There’s a decent parent/child relationship for splitting up large tasks across hands (though I try to avoid this). Dart looks interesting, but give GH projects a whirl

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