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Trello[0] is a pretty good one-size fits all to-do application, and can be useful for dumping ideas. If your tech team grows and you need something a little more specific, I recommend Sprintly[1]. Of course, an inherent conflict arises when one longs for a product with extra features that scratch particular itches, but wants to avoid learning and using and coordinating multiple products simultaneously. There's no easy answer to this problem. [0] https://trello.com [1] https://sprint.ly

Another great tool in this vein of "process, but not too much" is https://sprint.ly/

Sounds like a lack of leadership.... This is a huge topic, and with little info its hard to recommend anything. Daily Stand-Up's? https://sprint.ly/blog/scrum-meeting-best-practices/

In this episode, I interview with Joe Stump, cofounder of Sprintly (https://sprint.ly), to give the startup perspective to development and testing. Joe has spent his career in startups. He’s also been involved with hiring and talent acquisition for several startups. We talk about testing, continuous integration, code reviews, deployment, tolerance to defects, and how some of those differ between large companies and small companies and startups. Then we get into hiring. Specifically, finding and evaluating good engineers, and then getting them to be interested in working for you. If you ever want to grow your team size, you need to listen to this.

At https://sprint.ly we use Buffer to manage outgoing posts. It's worked really well; especially now that they have the new scheduler: http://cl.ly/image/1I2g153e3c31. We publish fairly regularly on our blog, so anytime we post something new, we schedule it in Buffer at the same time (using this schedule: http://cl.ly/image/3J1V3Q25242I)

Well, I'm quite happy using Sprint.ly (https://sprint.ly) to build our product. I think what makes it a good choice for software development are the things it does not have, like custom statuses, custom item types, time tracking. Also, it has sane defaults. Their story format (As a ... I want ... so that ....) can be weird at first if you are not used to it, but it really helps focusing on the real benefits of a feature and segmenting your customers.

We've been using a Kanban-like approach for about 36 months. While it's not perfect, it's advantage is that it's actually fairly flexible: you can modify it to fit your needs. For example: we look at the immediate backlog at the beginning of every week, and then look at what we accomplished on Fridays. We also do longer range planning at a monthly Product meeting where Engineering, Sales and the Product Manager all look forward to bigger product milestones. We also try to set general launch dates for these. We use http://sprint.ly to manage the dev process, which has added features for estimating delivery (based on past performance). Everyone in the company can access Sprint.ly, suggest features, and see what items are currently being worked on.

Plenty to choose from... * ZenHub - Project Management for Agile Teams in GitHub || https://www.zenhub.io/ * Kanban Software | Online Kanban for Business || https://kanbanize.com/ * Waffle.io · Work Better on GitHub Issues || https://waffle.io/ * Agile issue tracking - sprint.ly || https://sprint.ly/ * SprintHub – Agile Layer for your GitHub Repositories || http://sprinthub.io/

If you're interested in building your own Slack integration, I wrote about how we built ours here: https://sprint.ly/blog/5-steps-to-a-slack-integration/

Here are a few that we use. Airbrake (http://airbrake.io/) - Exception logging. Campfire (http://campfirenow.com/) - Chat. Librato (https://metrics.librato.com/) - Hosted graphing. Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com/) - Analytics, people tracking. Pagerduty (http://www.pagerduty.com/) - Monitoring alerts. Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com/) - Sending emails. Sprintly (https://sprint.ly/) - Project management. Tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) - Offsite backups. As well as all the obvious ones - GitHub, Google Apps, Dropbox, etc.

I've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. (http://startingandsustaining.com) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack (http://www.browserstack.com) Litmus (http://litmus.com) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd (http://bugherd.com) Lighthouse (http://lighthouseapp.com) Sifter (http://sifterapp.com) (Disclaimer: I built this.) --Planning & Project Management Sprintly (http://sprint.ly) Podio (https://podio.com) Flow (http://www.getflow.com) Interstate (http://interstateapp.com) Basecamp (http://basecamp.com) Apollo (http://www.apollohq.com) Pivotal (http://www.pivotaltracker.com) Asana (http://www.asana.com) Trello (https://trello.com) Blossom (https://www.blossom.io) Trajectory (https://www.apptrajectory.com) --Business & Traffic Analytics KissMetrics (http://kissmetrics.com) MixPanel (http://mixpanel.com) DigMyData (http://digmydata.com) --Continuous Integration / Code Quality Travis (https://travis-ci.org) Circle (http://circleci.com) CodeClimate (http://codeclimate.com) Sempaphore (https://semaphoreapp.com) --Dashboards Ducksboard (http://ducksboard.com) Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com) Instrumental (https://instrumentalapp.com) --Error/Exception Handling Sentry (https://getsentry.com) Coalmine (https://www.getcoalmine.com) HoneyBadger (https://www.honeybadger.io) BugSnag…