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dvhtoday at 9:32 AM5 repliesview on HN

I always giggle when I look at the promo screenshot of fancy new to-do app that is supposed to solve the project management once and for all, and there are like 6 items on it instead of 200.


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SOLAR_FIELDStoday at 9:53 AM

It’s simply very early on in the endless lifecycle of project management:

Simple kanban is great! It’s simple! Okay, new users, new feature requests. Wow now I’ve got a really robust product but still it only solves problems for maybe 30% of people. Let’s add more! Eventually we have converged to Jira and instead of doing a few things really well we now do everything poorly. At this point you’ve probably got enough cargo culted corporate bureaucrats using your product to survive for quite awhile as you ride the wave of revenue into the slow tide of mediocrity. Then the death and rebirth as the new starry eyed project management tool begins as YetAnotherTrelloClone

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dzogchentoday at 9:58 AM

The best Kanban board is a physical one. You are also not going to be able to put 200 items on it.

That’s a feature, not a bug.

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lawgimeneztoday at 11:13 AM

I remembered one project I added over 20 items and then GitHub’s Kanban started freaking out. Never did I used it since. Trello was great but got heavier too with all those fancy stuffs and colors.

I’m still in the lookout for a great kanban software though.

alemwjsltoday at 9:46 AM

It also looks like Jira.

poloticstoday at 11:07 AM

..instead of 2000 ?