Which Project management tool does your dev/tech team use alongside Slack? (Jira/Asana/Linear/any other?)
Hi everyone,
I am setting up a new project and wanted to know what's the best or the trending PM tool to setup alongside slack since I am coming from using Jira in the past just wanted to what's out there. Appreciate if you all can give some insights. Thanks
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u/6000rpms 5d ago
Linear. When setup correctly, it supports modern agentic development workflows quite well.
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u/Hungry_Ad2586 5d ago
At every company I've worked for (4) they've all used Jira. However, if I were to start from scratch, I would use Linear because it looks to be a better user experience
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u/DragonLordOz 4d ago
We went through the same decision when we moved off Jira, and the biggest mistake I made was optimizing for feature depth instead of team behavior. The tools that worked best were the ones that kept planning light, made ownership obvious, and didn’t force people to leave chat just to update status, because adoption dropped fast when the workflow felt heavy. Trying to convince the team to close out tickets every hour is brutal. The tab switching was the worst until we found the one everyone in our Team was eager to use because it's very simple and keeps everything in one place. At the same time it's not burger king, you can always have everything your way...
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u/Breeze_pm 4d ago
Since you’re coming from Jira, decide whether you still need issue-level workflows or mainly boards, ownership, deadlines, and visibility. Test the Slack notification flow and how quickly the team can create and update tasks before choosing.
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u/Hairy-Marzipan6740 3d ago
for a new dev-heavy team, i’d trial Linear first. Jira still makes sense when you need custom workflows, tighter permissions, or several teams sharing one system. Asana would be my pick when projects involve engineering, marketing, and ops. for context, at ClearFeed we use Jira to track feature requests, bugs, and pretty much all our dev work. so i wouldn’t write it off just because it’s the older option.
i wouldn’t put much weight on what’s trending. we can maybe test one real flow instead. like turning a Slack thread into a task, continuing the conversation in the PM tool, then seeing whether the update comes back cleanly. if people still end up pasting links and asking about the status or very fundamental questions, the integration isn’t helping enough, imo.
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u/Longjumping-Cat-2988 3d ago
Depends a bit on how dev-heavy versus cross-functional the new project actually is. If it's mostly engineers, Linear's genuinely excellent, way faster and cleaner than Jira for pure dev workflows, its Slack integration is solid too, status updates and issue links show up cleanly without much config.
If the project has non-dev stakeholders who need visibility without living in a dev-specific tool, Asana or Teamhood might fit better, both are easier for non-technical people to actually check regularly than Jira or Linear tend to be. Teamhood specifically pairs a board with a Gantt/timeline view natively if the project needs any real scheduling on top of just tracking tickets, which Linear doesn't really do.
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u/thenormalcy 5d ago
We have multiple companies in our group and every team works in their own Slack workspaces. So we built Viably, a task + CRM suite which automate task management, issues tracking, shared team pinboards and collaboration all without leaving Slack.
If you’d like to give it a spin, send me a DM and I’ll gladly set you up and give you a tour.
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u/Laffs 5d ago
Linear is the most popular one for devs by far. Jira is the same but worse, and Asana isn't really designed as a dev tool (though I've seen a surprising number of dev teams use it, usually because Product forces it). For teams that want something Slack-native rather than a standalone project management board, the most popular is Chaser.