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Re:Ask HN: Project Management tool for small teams by ThePhysicist on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:48AM (#19885886)
Probably this is not a popular opinion but I'd go for Jira. Atlassian offers it for a very low price (10 USD / year I think) for small teams with up to 10 users. You can also self-host it if you do not want to store your data in the cloud, which for me is a large plus. It offers a lot of functionality but doesn't force you to use all of it, and it provides burndown charts and estimation features out of the box (https://www.atlassian.com/agile/tutorials/burndown-charts).

That said you could also use Gitlab, which keeps adding more functionality to their issue management. Trello might be a choice as well as there are plugins / third-party services available that can provide estimates, personally I'd not use it for software development though as I think it's not the right tool for this.

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Re:Ask HN: Project Management tool for small teams by point__blank on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:15AM (#19885997)
I feel Jira’s UI is too complicated for simple project management task.
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Re:Ask HN: Project Management tool for small teams by muzani on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:33AM (#19890518)
I tried Jira with a team of 6 and it was an absolute pain. Nobody wanted to get on it and we ended up just emailing everyone instead. It seems to be designed for a team of 200 or to make managers look good.
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Re:Ask HN: Project Management tool for small teams by ThePhysicist on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:45AM (#19891334)
I hear you, but they recently did a lot of work to simplify their UI and make it less "enterprisey", which I think makes it more usable to smaller teams.

For me Jira is a good compromise since I can easily create custom dashboards, work with Kanban or sprint boards (Trello-style) and see how work is progressing and if we're still on track. In addition we can manage non-software projects with it too, which allows me to use a single tool for all team members and projects. Getting a team to use any kind of formal project management is hard though.

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