Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small coding project

Posted by samhart on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

me and a couple friends are about to start a project and i want to set up a good way for us to keep one another up to date.

i set up a git already but i wanted to know what was out there for project management. thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small codin... by sdoering on Thursday December 22, 2011 @03:35AM (#3380883)

The question is, how elaborate you want it to be. And how far the distance is, between your teammates.

If you are able to meet and you "just" need a way, to track status-updates, perhaps updating the readme on git would be enough (if everyone read it).

Or you could use a small and nice project-management-tool like Splendid Bacon (https://splendidbacon.com/)

You could use Skype (or anything like that) to discuss things (if you are far away from each other), if you can't meet in person.

Or - if you all have an email-adress with the same domain-name - you could use yammer to chat/discuss, make planing documents, and so forth... (http://yammer.com/)

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Re:Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small codin... by leslyn on Thursday December 22, 2011 @07:02AM (#3381260)

We've been using 37 Signals https://launchpad.37signals.com/signin, which has worked great and we send emails constantly (saving docs/files with a date for easy reference)

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Re:Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small codin... by jerickson on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:36AM (#3381207)

Try Yammer, it works great for small teams (I am biased, I am the UX/UI designer at Yammer)

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Re:Ask HN: best way to manage communication on a small codin... by perfunctory on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:17AM (#3380959)

Just talk to each other.

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