Best Atlassian alternative?
Does any of you know of any nice alternatives to Atlassian (Jira/Confluence etc)
What I am looking for is a nice tool/platform for managing all our projects from one place 🤔
Where the company can have multiple projects and each project potentially can have multiple boards/teams (one for design one for backend and one for frontend for example)
I want to be able to keep documentation on the board/team level, the project level and the company level.
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ClickUp instead of Jira and Notion instead of Confluence.
I want everything in one place, I don't wanna have to spread it out over multiple different platforms/tools =/
what would you need confluence for?
clickup has a feature of creating "docs", so you might as well be good with that
I remembered other one - Mattermost + Focalboard . It covers team communication, tasks and notes.
Never used it though. But I know they are trying to make open source alternative to Slack + Jira + Confluence
Does it support having docs on the organization level, project level and team level?
I really need to be able to at least have docs on the organization level and on the project level.
We used Mattermost at a previous gig for a while, not a big fan, worse version of slack imo
hmm, I haven't had a use for that, not sure about such granular structure, but I think it supports that
lemme check
Good to know. I will also skip on it in the future.
clickup structure is as following: workspace -> spaces -> folders(without nesting)/lists/docs/whiteboards -> lists/docs/whiteboards
you can't add folders in workspace level
oh i missed one thing - spaces can contain folders too
lemme edit
Damn then that rules it out for now I guess...
one space could be one project and then one folder one team but then we lose out on the organization level documents which is probably the main thing that is hard to find on these platforms
oh wait
you actually can add docs
its like a section on top of workspace then
ignore my naming
yeah i find the UI a bit confusing, I dont happen to use clickup that much, so it just might take time for you to get used to it, but I think you should be good with clickup actually
seems like Github also has support for most of these things but gonna be hard to convince non devs we should use github for it
yeah I had this exact trouble once, too 😄
clickup can be integrated with github issues
when you create something in a canban board on clickup(and have enabled syncing for the board) it automatically creates and closes issues on PR's even I think
Shortcut also looks quite nice, damn there are too many platforms for these things 😂
I think you'll like this one bit...
first time hearing about shortcut. from what i see it's got quite alot of integrations
Shortcut responded to my mail within like 5 minutes as well so that's a plus ^^
insane
haha I saw some guy on another server that seems to hate Clickup @notdevkey 😂
>> proceeds to not provide any reason as to why
clickup is confusing, i agree on that part
for every thing you can find a guy who absolutely despises it, and that's fine 😄
Seems like shortcut won't work for us.
They only seem to support documentation on workspace level (which for us would have to be one workspace per project because we need to invite external people sometimes)
github project free and custom (api acess)
We sometimes need to invite external people to our boards though but we don't wanna give them access to our repos so it kinda rules it out I guess?
not actually, you can leave it semi public and you don't need to link it to a repository (access control)
these are new features that are being implemented recently, github projects are currently very active in their updates, I migrated 2 months ago from jira to it and it is working very well
But if we have let's say 100 repos and all of them have separate projects won't it easily become very chaotic if it is not linked to the repositories?
Does Github support organization level documentation btw? 🤔
no because he manages to cross references (1 board for several repos, in fact he links the issue to the board not the other way around) currently I manage 6 repository for a single board and I manage to separate the questions that I don't want linked to the board
I think we would rather want multiple boards for one repo (one for designers and one for developers for example)
And we want separate boards for each repo because they are completely separate projects most of the time
the big vantages its a customization and trigger via API an actions
https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/automating-your-project/using-the-built-in-automations
GitHub Docs
Using the built-in automations - GitHub Docs
I did this on my board (separated by view)
you can create custom views and filters (and custom coluns and values to pin)
Yeah but that's because you are working on all of these
You would not want to see things you are not working on.
cross repos and cross issues and cross boards
And github lacks organization level documentation as well right?
u can filter by signal like minus "-" to filtern
There is no way to add wiki pages to the organization level it seems like
i use organization and u can use without organization level
I want to have documentation (lots of docs) on organization level.
Github doesn't support this I think
you can add link and readme
maybe u need creat one repo with only wikis
Sounds like a very annoying solution for it and no way I'd get PO's and Designers to agree on that
you can use github pages or disscussion section for this
And I want to have multiple boards per project (one for developers and one for designers at least)
and I want to have that linked to the repo (if it's in github) so that only people that are working on those repos see those boards but I still want to be able to have external users invited to the board without having access to the code.
U can do it use permission to troubleshotting acesses (the organization mode have this)
the permission its not only for repo (its for projects and other areas of github check docs)
@wezter96 i use this to combo figma with github
https://www.figma.com/github-for-figjam/
Figma
GitHub and FigJam
Go from planning projects to shipping code faster with the GitHub widget for FigJam.
Track better in FigJam
Streamline design to development workflows in Figma
Seems like Linear might be the best bet for us and just keep the global documentation somewhere else. It's an option that seems like it will be easier to manage
@wezter96 for manage permission use teams fature
Linear
Linear – A better way to build products
Linear streamlines issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. It’s the new standard for modern software development.
yeah exactly, seems like it might be the best option for us right now, way easier to get PO's and Designers to use it as well 😄
@wezter96 https://site.gitscrum.com/ its a other alternative (very useful and with lot features (have pay one time forever)
Oh that's nice!
Do you know about how their "docs support" looks like?
GitScrum Wiki - We help teams work together better, through better ...
Everybody collaborates using their strengths, improving ideas, coming up with better ones instead of getting stuck. Knowledge is shared so you can make extraordinary things happen with your projects
This is my current list after removing like 5-10 other ones 😅
Linear $8-12/user (nice desktop app and mobile app, lacks organization level documentation but that could be handled by creating an organziation project that contains organization documents)
Shortcut $8-12/user (no desktop or mobile app, similar limitations to Linear but might be a bit more fully featured as a project management tool)
ClickUp $7-12/user (desktop and mobile app, documentation on all levels and seems quite fully featured)
Some that I have seen mentioned in some places but haven't looked into much yet.
YouTrack 4$/user (Jetbrains product)
GitScrum $273/year for unlimited users (Not sure if it works well with multiple projects)