How I estimate work(seangoedecke.com)
450 points by mattjhall | 268 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he approaches estimating software work as a staff engineer, arguing accurate estimation is impossible.
#project-management on Hacker News
14 stories tagged project-management, newest first.
My approach to building large technical projects (2023)(mitchellh.com)
332 points by mad2021 | 47 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's 2023 blog post on staying motivated through large technical projects by ordering work so real, demoable results come continuously.
Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello(github.com)
464 points by henryball | 210 comments
GitHub repository for Kan, an open-source Trello alternative kanban board built with TypeScript, Next.js, tRPC and Drizzle ORM under GPL-3.0.
Milk Kanban(brodzinski.com)
405 points by ladronevincet | 154 comments
Blog post by Pawel Brodzinski describing an office practice of tagging milk cartons with cards to signal restocking, as a simple example of Kanban.
My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation(cosive.com)
428 points by tashicorp | 382 comments
Blog post by Cosive CTO Chris Horsley using an analogy from his washing machine's time estimates to reflect on software effort estimation.
GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search(github.blog)
333 points by julius-fx | 191 comments
GitHub changelog post announcing the public preview of sub-issues, issue types, and advanced search for GitHub Issues, released January 13, 2025.
How I ship projects at big tech companies(seangoedecke.com)
1297 points by gfysfm | 360 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he leads and ships projects at big tech companies, and the common mistakes engineers make when shipping.
Huly – Open-source project management platform(github.com)
416 points by blacktechnology | 192 comments
GitHub repository for Huly, an open-source all-in-one project management platform positioned as an alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion and Motion.
If architects had to work like programmers (1995)(gksoft.com)
436 points by cebert | 171 comments
A humorous 1995 letter from a client asking an architect to build a house with shifting, contradictory requirements, satirizing how programmers are treated.
"No, it's less effort than that"(smartguess.is)
362 points by replyifuagree | 287 comments
A Smart Guess blog post about software effort estimates and people claiming a task takes less effort than estimated.
Plane – Open-source Jira alternative(plane.so)
377 points by prhrb | 128 comments
Landing page for Plane, an open-source project management tool for tracking issues, sprints, and product roadmaps, positioned as a Jira alternative.
Fast(patrickcollison.com)
799 points by valtism | 273 comments
Patrick Collison's list of historical examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious projects, like BankAmericard, the P-80 Shooting Star, and Marinship.
Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira(github.com)
561 points by viharkurama | 203 comments
GitHub repository for Plane, an open-source project management tool positioned as an alternative to Jira, Linear and Height for tracking issues and roadmaps.
Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software(kanboard.org)
473 points by thunderbong | 154 comments
Homepage of Kanboard, a free and open source Kanban project management application, showing a demo board screenshot.