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Business Problems Solved
Zenhub has become an essential tool for development teams looking to streamline their project management process. With its seamless integration with Github, users are able to effortlessly organize, plan, and run sprints using existing Github issues and workflows. The user-friendly interface requires no training, making it accessible for both product and engineering teams.
Many users have found Zenhub to be a valuable project planning tool that offers all the necessary features for effective organization and tracking. It serves as an agile storyboard pipeline tracker and allows for coordination with source control. By visualizing work and tracking implementation progress, Zenhub significantly improves bottom line results for development projects.
With its intuitive Kanban/Scrum boards, Zenhub is widely used by IT teams, including product owners and project managers. It facilitates backlog management and sprint planning by providing stakeholders with a clear status overview. Furthermore, Zenhub fills the gaps in Github's sprint planning and backlog management tools by adding extra categorization with Epics and enabling better estimation and tracking of work.
As a project management board for repositories uploaded to Github, Zenhub becomes the go-to platform for communication and keeping users up to date with project information. While primarily used internally by development departments, it offers powerful functionalities that enhance collaboration and efficiency across teams. Overall, Zenhub is valued by users for its ability to seamlessly integrate with Github while providing an array of robust project management features needed for successful implementation.
We used Zenhub to fill the gaps in GitHub's sprint planning and backlog management tools. Zenhub allowed us to better organize our work by adding an extra level of categorization (Epics) with which we could group multiple user stories together. Zenhub allowed us to estimate the work prior to the sprints and better keep track of what was being done and what was left to do. Being able to track dependencies also made it easier for our development teams to stay on top of the work required.
Pros
Scrum boards
Allowing us to track more information in tickets
Sprint planning
Automations and workflows
Cons
At the time, the planning poker functionality lacked flexibility
Automation had some limitations that wouldn't accomodate our workflow
Likelihood to Recommend
The standalone Github project/sprint management is complete garbage when compared to tools like Atlassian Jira. We wanted a cost-effective way of tracking our backlog that was well-connected with our repo (Github). Zenhub seemed to contain all of the features we wanted, plus a few more, and none of the bloat that we didn't want or need. The pricing was very reasonable for our team size when compared to other solutions. Very easy to set up and use as well.
VU
Verified User
Former Employee in Product Management (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)
Zenhub would assist us with development tasks for our software programs, additionally we would use it to help track implementation progress and project management. Business problems the product solved included coordinating team members, even customers for tasks that are required to successful capture customer revenue. Ultimately this software helped improve our bottom line leading to positive results.
Pros
organize complex projects
customize workflows
coordinate and communicate with customers around project updates
Cons
Additional communication/collaboration inside the platform would be helpful
Integration with additional systems like Slack would be a plus
sometimes web pages load slowly, but for the most part things are alright
Likelihood to Recommend
Zenhub is incredible for the below areas: Burndown Charts, Release Reports, Velocity Tracking, Control Points Charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams And if there is a bottleneck in your workflow, ZenHub identifies it. The most important aspect is serving as a collaboration tool for areas that are impeding implementation projects. For example when working with non-standard ERPs and having to document ERP integrations this tool is very helpful
ZenHub is used as a project management board for repositories uploaded to GitHub. We work on different projects and keep up to date with information about them all by using this software. Internal use of the development department only.
Pros
Project organization.
Notifications on board changes for better tracking.
Looking at other boards.
Cons
Nothing to add here so far.
Likelihood to Recommend
The reporting function is great. This works great for web developers because you can fill in information as time passes and by creating specific issues you can keep track of any changes in the project, making it perfect for the use of any agile methodology such as Scrum or XP when working with a team.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)
Zenhub is used within our development team. I flat out expect it to be acquired by Github at any time because it works so well and integrates so seamlessly into Github using the chrome extension. We use it to easily organize, plan, and run our sprints with our existing github issues and development flow. It's easy enough to use that both the product and engineering teams can use it effectively without training. It's a feature Github should have by default, but doesn't.
Pros
Makes it very easy to get a high-level overview of sprints and sprint progress, creates burndown charts, etc
UX is top notch, almost everything works intuitively
You can create issues and epics right from the interface, basically all github issue functionality is available through zenbhub
Embeds into github using an extension so you don't need an external site
Free starter plan good to test and for small dev teams
Cons
Mobile experience is hard as it's a board layout. Could use a dedicated app.
Has some UX quirks that rear their heads randomly, i.e. can't convert an issue to an epic if you click the wrong button when creating
May have recently moved to all-paid for companies with a 14 day trial, used to be free for small teams
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have more than 2 developers this thing is basically a requirement within github to manage sprints if you use agile methodology. Why use a different website entirely when you can run your entire board right from github itself? I've tried other solutions but basing everything on github issues makes it so no duplicate work has to take place. If the UX quirks and mobile were fixed this would be 10/10 for me!
If you're only one or two devs on a team it may be overkill to use, but if you're going to scale it's better to put the process in early.