HACKER Q&A
📣 jackh04878

What's the best tool you've used for sprint planning in 2025?


Most PM tools feel like they add more overhead than they solve for. We’ve been looking for something that can actually handle end-to-end dev work sprint planning, tracking, and cross-team collaboration without needing a full-time admin.

Monday Dev’s been solid so far. It’s flexible enough for the way our team works, but still structured enough to manage real sprint cycles and deliverables. Definitely curious what others are using that can scale with both team growth and complexity.


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Best tool I've used so far in this field has been Linear. It's simple, and a great balance between opinionated and customisable. The UI is simple and snappy too. It's like a polar opposite of Jira.

👤 deangiberson
Whatever the team I'm working with is currently using. Chasing the most recent tool doesn't add value until you see a process problem that a new tool obviously fixes without breaking everything else.

👤 devmakasana
We recently migrated to Teamcamp.app, within an afternoon, everyone was clicking through tasks without needing a tutorial. The interface felt so intuitive that our team actually spent time building instead of figuring out the tool.

👤 HereBeBeasties
fibery.io - it is excellent. You need to configure it, although it has various templates to get you going out of the box, including sprint-based development.

The nice thing about it is that you can add whatever you like, however you like. Want components with default owners for tasks? Want milestones? Want stakeholders? Want sign-off reviewers? Want to integrate with existing tools like Linear or Notion or JIRA or even email inboxes or Slack messages? Add entities for Incidents, that automatically make a dedicated Slack channel when you create them?

Want proper 1:1 or 1:manu or many:many links between Tasks and Milestones and Sprints and Incidents and Teams and Components and whatever?

Want single assignees? Or multiple ones?

Want flexible custom reports on all of it?

Or just want a simple flat Todo list, that can evolve later to fit your needs?

Stop having the tools dictate to you how you work and instead set it up how your company actually wants to work. That's Fibery.

(I am not connected to the company, just a very happy user.)


👤 vishalontheline
OkNext.io - no flexibility, no sprint planning.. get shit done and the tool will fit into your next week tasks based on prior weeks' performance.

👤 nickdichev
I’m using plane.so it’s got the basic features you need (tasks, sprints, epics) and that’s it. Generous free tier too

👤 11235813213455
GitHub or GitLab boards

👤 HenryBemis
Jira (for life!)

👤 fragmede
physical post it notes from eg OfficeMax

👤 nssnsjsjsjs
Excel.

👤 scarface_74
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