Hacker News with Generative AI: Project Management

Everything’s a bug (or an issue) (bozemanpass.com)
What if I were to tell you that I had discovered a way to run software projects that’s efficient, effective, reliable, even pleasant?
Software Development, Project Management, Productivity
65 points by dboreham 40 days ago | 28 comments
Reflecting on Software Engineering Handbook (yusufaytas.com)
One year. May 2024. Back then, we were riding high, celebrating the launch of this Software Engineering Handbook with an amazing trip to Iceland. Five days of glaciers and waterfalls, finally enjoying the fact that we finished up a two year project. We thought we’d cracked it, pouring our hard won experience into a guide for anyone navigating the software engineering business.
Software Engineering, Books, Retrospective, Project Management
19 points by yusufaytas 40 days ago | 1 comments
How Not to Be Overwhelmed (ycombinator.com)
When starting a huge project or product from scratch how do you guys prevent yourselves from getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount of code to write or work to do?
Software Development, Project Management, Productivity
11 points by banrovegrie 44 days ago | 15 comments
Show HN: I made a site for finding people to build cool tech projects with (guildorigin.com)
Show HN, Community, Technology, Project Management, Collaboration
17 points by quelup 45 days ago | 21 comments
Sequencing for Value (blueberrypediatrics.blog)
Sequencing is the practice of completing work in the optimal order. An optimal order is one that helps us ship work quickly, while balancing urgency and rigor.
Software Development, Project Management, Efficiency
15 points by kierangill 47 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: My company is forcing 1 week sprints. What should I do? (ycombinator.com)
The leadership of the company I’m at is forcing all teams to do 1 week sprints instead of 2 because they believe that they can get more out of the teams and get better visibility into progress.
Agile Development, Software Development, Project Management, Work Culture
14 points by mcsolid 50 days ago | 44 comments
Show HN: Traycer.ai – Turn GitHub Issues into a Step-by-Step Plan (traycer.ai)
Automatically transform GitHub Issues into actionable plans—one click import into your IDE with complete context.
GitHub, Software Development, Project Management, Tools
7 points by pranshu54 56 days ago | 0 comments
The Art of Managing Skunks (bitbucket.io)
Since moving from academic research to industry in 2017, I’ve worked on two software projects. Each one started as a small, clean-slate1 skunkworks effort involving 2-3 people and gradually expanded to a large, conventional software engineering effort with dozens of engineers.
Software Engineering, Project Management, Skunkworks
56 points by sebg 57 days ago | 10 comments
Ask HN: Is Basecamp Good? (ycombinator.com)
Genuinely curious to understand from people who have used other stuff from Atlassian, Notion etc and successfully made switch to Basecamp. Or vice versa. Basecamp design and tools look very well done but somehow in the past it has not stuck much with me or various teams I have tried it with. Love DHH & Jason on X and their books tho!
Project Management, Software, Collaboration, Comparison
13 points by jharohit 65 days ago | 12 comments
Wasting Inferences with Aider (worksonmymachine.substack.com)
This week’s ‘Works on My Machine’ explores a pattern that leans into the “Waste Inferences!” concept I’ve shared in the past and asks the question: what if we just trigger multiple AI attempts automatically from our project management tool and just pick the best result?
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Project Management, Software Development
139 points by Stwerner 75 days ago | 105 comments
Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy (manager.dev)
As a developer, fake deadlines drove me crazy.
Project Management, Software Development, Productivity
54 points by stryhx 86 days ago | 91 comments
All estimations are wrong, but none are useful (techworld-with-milan.com)
If you're working in a team using the Scrum framework, you use story points to estimate effort on your stories, tasks, etc. Some management also takes this into account and does planning, measures your productivity, and even keeps you accountable when something is done. Yet, they need to learn that software estimations are always wrong.
Software Development, Scrum, Project Management
49 points by Kerrick 89 days ago | 71 comments
DoD kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays (theregister.com)
After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Government, Technology, IT, Project Management, Budget
15 points by LinuxBender 95 days ago | 4 comments
Project Operation Whitecoat (2010) (lib.csusb.edu)
Project Management, History, Military
107 points by smegger001 95 days ago | 104 comments
PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project (packagephobia.com)
Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project
Software Development, Software Dependencies, Project Management, Cost Analysis
36 points by pabs3 100 days ago | 44 comments
How I've run major projects (benkuhn.net)
My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts.
Project Management, Software Development, Anthropic, AI, Productivity
5 points by surprisetalk 102 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers (enkitask.com)
Our tool is designed for both freelancers and team collaborations. Built with Agile principles and Scrum methodology, it strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and power. Keep your tasks organized, projects on track, and budgets intact, whether you're working solo or managing a team.
Freelancing, Project Management, Agile, Scrum
68 points by booper 102 days ago | 48 comments
Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement (bye-tracker.net)
Many people expressed their sadness and love for Pivotal Tracker when the shutdown was announced. Today, as we get closer to the sunset date, we want to remember what made it unique and provide an overview of the projects carrying Tracker's legacy forward. It's exciting to witness more than 10 teams from across the globe working to achieve this goal in a condensed time frame.
Software, Project Management, Open Source, Community, Technology
130 points by jFriedensreich 103 days ago | 93 comments
Are There Opportunities to Use OODA Loops in Your Software Project? (atomicobject.com)
The world is full of good ideas misapplied, so I want to be careful when discussing OODA loops. The OODA loop was created as an idea in the study of war. War is endemic to the way humans are (at least, so far), but it is always, in part or in whole, a tragedy. And characterizing software engineering, business operations or entrepreneurship as a conflict in that vein can create an overly aggressive view of the world.
Software Development, Project Management, Decision Making
9 points by philk10 106 days ago | 12 comments
With AI you need to think bigger (rodyne.com)
I have noticed something in the past 12 months, something a little profound. I have noticed that I am no longer scared that a project will be too big or too complex for me, or that a project will use a technology or programming language I don’t know.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Project Management
305 points by boznz 110 days ago | 167 comments
AI is going to hack Jira (godfreyai.com)
AI is going to hack Jira
AI, Software, Project Management
12 points by bsick7 112 days ago | 2 comments
The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50% (jeremyaboyd.com)
Productivity, Software Development, Project Management
20 points by jermaustin1 120 days ago | 7 comments
Project Scripts (paul-samuels.com)
Try creating a cli executable in your project that exposes common project tasks that are written in the project’s core language. This allows better contribution and less single points of failure with pockets of knowledge in the team.
Software Development, Automation, Project Management, Collaboration
22 points by ingve 124 days ago | 17 comments
Kaneo – An open source project management platform (kaneo.app)
An open source project management platform focused on simplicity and efficiency. Self-host it, customize it, make it yours.
Open Source, Project Management, Software, Web Development
152 points by saturn5k 125 days ago | 67 comments
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (bitecode.dev)
After one year of trying uv, the new Python project management tool by Astral, with many clients, I have seen what it's good and bad for.
Python, Project Management, Software, Tools
723 points by bertdb 129 days ago | 394 comments
Project 2025 Observer (project2025.observer)
Project 2025 Tracker
Project Management, Future, Predictions
190 points by napolux 130 days ago | 57 comments
Ask HN: How to stop taking on too many projects getting burned out? (ycombinator.com)
I am currently swamped with projects. I can't point to any particular project and say "This one was to much" but all of them combined have got me totally overwhelmed.
Time Management, Burnout, Project Management, Productivity
9 points by annie_muss 134 days ago | 23 comments
Moved from Jira to OpenProject – Built an Open-Source Migration Tool (ycombinator.com)
A few weeks ago, I decided to move away from JIRA to cut costs and self-host my project management tool.
Open Source, Project Management, Migration Tools
11 points by eibrahim 143 days ago | 12 comments
Seeing Software: Why we need to be choosers rather than users (whatworks.fyi)
I hate project management software. Despise it. Refuse to use it—and if I can help it, even look at it. This does not endear me to people in my life who are more traditionally organized and process-driven.
Software, Project Management, Productivity
4 points by yarapavan 144 days ago | 0 comments
Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact (seangoedecke.com)
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the slow pace of a team and decide “screw it, I’ll just burn through all these tickets”.
Software Development, Productivity, Project Management, Team Dynamics
89 points by scarface_74 154 days ago | 81 comments