We are currently working with Azure DevOps at our company. It connects well with Microsoft Teams and our code repositories which makes collaboration between testing teams and developers much smoother. The integration helps us track issues from discovery to deployment without switching between different platforms. I’m curious about what other teams are using for their sprint planning and task management. Are there better alternatives out there that offer similar integration capabilities? Would love to hear about your experiences with different agile management platforms and how they work with your existing tech stack. What features do you find most valuable for keeping your development cycles organized?
We’ve had great luck with monday.com. The visual boards are perfect for non-tech people - they can see what’s happening without getting lost in developer speak. The automation saves us hours each week. Cards move automatically when status changes, Slack gets pinged, all that good stuff. Yeah, it gets pricey as you scale up, but the Harvest integration makes client billing so much easier.
We switched from Asana to Linear 8 months ago - best decision ever. Linear’s built specifically for dev teams, not generic project management stuff. The keyboard shortcuts are amazing once you learn them, and spinning up new issues is crazy fast. Love how it auto-updates progress from Git commits, so standup prep is basically zero work. Interface stays clean even when we’re juggling multiple sprints, which is rare. Search actually works (shocking, I know), and the roadmap view makes stakeholder meetings way smoother. It’s noticeably faster than the bloated alternatives, though bigger companies might miss some enterprise bells and whistles.
We’ve used Jira with Confluence for three years now. The reporting’s solid - velocity and burndown charts work great for retrospectives. What sold us was being able to customize workflow states to match how we actually work instead of getting stuck with generic templates. Search works well across projects, and linking Bitbucket commits directly to tickets is handy. Downside? New team members get overwhelmed with all the config options. It can slow down with huge backlogs, but it handles cross-team dependencies pretty well. The mobile app’s decent for quick updates during remote standups.
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