Thursday, July 17, 2014

My $0 Project Management and Documentation Solution

I'm pretty used to the Atlassian + Gliffy stack for project management, data modeling, and documentation. What about all those projects I work on that have a budget of essentially $0? If you're hemming and hawing about the $6/mo for an AWS EC2 micro instance that will provide you with web, app, db, and doc hosting, you're probably not going to spring for the $10 JIRA + $10 Confluence + $10 Gliffy = $30/mo for developer tooling.

My preferred $0 stack?

  • Bitbucket.org
    • Repository hosting (Git/Hg)
    • Artifact hosting (download releases & such)
    • Wiki
    • Issue tracking
  • Trello.com
    • Kanban task/feature/workflow management
  • Drive.google.com
    • User Guides
    • Draw.io diagrams
    • Project management spreadsheets
  • Draw.io (backed by Google docs)
    • UI Mockups
    • UML
    • ERD & Data Modeling
The draw.io tool is a major win. It provides super-quick data and UI modeling workflows, along with a slew of handy shapes right off the bat. 

Here's a super-quick basic sample that shows an android mockup, site mockup, erd, and basic diagram:

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