Staying up to date and evolving with your industry is inevitable to stay relevant. We know this as a digital agency and the same goes for digital tools. Read on to learn more about why we left our previously favorite tools for something new, shiny and future proof.
It’s a fond memory of ours when Trello, BitBucket and Jira used to be go-to tools to run an efficient development team. As a matter of fact we wrote a blog post about why we moved away from Jira with our design team. A smaller team with almost no remote team mates meant simpler requirements. As times changed and hybrid working became the new normal way of working, our set of expectations for a good project management tool became key to success for our business and allow our team to build amazing products. Meanwhile, GitHub Projects had evolved to a mature and solid product that was now able to solve most of our challenges.
What makes GitHub Projects amazing?
You know what developers most enjoy doing? It’s actually building things (surprise!). Keeping their primary focus on developing and building enticing products (within reasonable time frames) should be the goal of any project management tool. In our vision that means a tool should merge project planning (issues), code hosting (repositories) and pipelines (actions) together into one powerful tool. This didn’t feel like a bridge too far for GitHub as many of these requirements were already available as features, yet not integrated together nicely. Introducing: GitHub Projects.
We fell in love with GitHub Projects right off the bat because of 5 things:
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Seamless integration of repos and issues
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Familiarity with their user interface and flows
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Highly configurable views
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Community based public roadmap
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Frequent stream of new features
Our ability to improve communication, collaborate seamlessly and organize information and the overall DX (Developer Experience) has improved immensely since we started using GitHub Projects. The whole development process has been optimized and team mates are generally much happier and more productive.
