Trello, Jira, Devops etc - Please help me help my team

[iamgigglz]

I’m a senior dev at a small company of 8 people working on about a dozen projects across half a dozen clients. Right now we use a self-hosted version of Axosoft OnTime for task management and time tracking. It’s ancient and a pain to use, so unsurprisingly it’s always out of date. To make things worse, many of our clients push their own task systems on us (usually Microsoft Planner) which means we’re now tracking tasks across multiple platforms with no single, consolidated view. It’s a mess.

I’d like to pitch something better to my boss, leaning towards Trello or Azure DevOps. DevOps makes the most sense since all our projects, source control, and some wikis are already there. We’re on the ultra-cheap (maybe free?) tier, but it seems to do what we need. The main downside is we can’t give clients visibility, which makes it hard to justify as a replacement for their Planners. Plus, getting a consolidated view across all projects doesn’t seem to be a thing?

Does anyone have suggestions for other tools worth considering? Ideally, something low-cost (or free) and with at least some way to get an overview of everything in one place.

P.S. I googled this and now I think I get exactly 47 Monday dot com adverts each day.

 

[mid_gen]

Using Linear at my current place which is pretty good.

Used Azure Dev Ops when I was at Microsoft and it was fine.

All of these can do the job in my experience, there’s no silver bullet that makes everything easy, all required work to be useful.

 

[iamgigglz]

Using Linear at my current place which is pretty good.

Used Azure Dev Ops when I was at Microsoft and it was fine.

All of these can do the job in my experience, there’s no silver bullet that makes everything easy, all required work to be useful.

I guess I'm just afraid of going all-in on something (probably Devops) and then realising there was a better option hiding in the wings all along. Thanks for the Linear suggestion. Never heard of it and it looks interesting.