We (a start-up) currently use Jira, but we have an opportunity to reevaluate our tools. We find Jira very clunky and hard to use, although it's very flexible (though extremely hard to configure).<p>We have tried out Linear a bit, and liked it a lot. What are some other popular alternatives which are fairly flexible, and good for software development?<p>Ideally, we want a tool we can use long-term, is easy and pleasant to use, and is flexible enough for the requirements of a software team.
Compared to more modern tools Jira is actually not very flexible.<p>For me the most flexible and useful tools are Kanbanize[0] and Kaiten[1].<p>Both companies are engaged in furthering the Kanban method which also means they care about having a lot of features for displaying cards, limiting work in progress, defining workflows and have solutions for working together on bigger workflows with several teams.<p>I use both professionally.<p>A lot of other solutions have assumptions built in which really limit flexibility. One example in Jira is the coupling between workflow status and columns on boards.<p>[0] <a href="https://kanbanize.com" rel="nofollow">https://kanbanize.com</a><p>[1] <a href="https://kaiten.io" rel="nofollow">https://kaiten.io</a>
I really like pivotal tracker, I'm using Asana right now for my personal project.<p>I'd go with whatever's easy. Issue tracking which is too rigid ends up being a burden
I used Jira a long time ago, but now we are currently using Restyaboard which is far better than Jira. It is flexible and has more free features to use. A better alternative to Jira.<p><a href="https://restya.com/board" rel="nofollow">https://restya.com/board</a>
Avoid Zoho, it's slow as shit. Typing up ticket the text latency is nearly a second.<p>Kinda liked Assembla - doesn't look great and search isn't great, but it's simple and quick enough for most part.