Have Skills, Will Travel Charles Armour

Project Management on GitHub

I’ve chosen GitHub as a project management platform for my developments.  It’s inexpensive and well featured, includes messaging, downloads, wikis, issues, and your source code.  I’m a little reticent to store my source code on their servers, but I decided to take the plunge with their private repositories.  So far it has been working out great!

I’m also considering FogBugz and Lighthouse for the project management side of things, as they have nifty performance indicators and milestones and releases and much, much better issue management.  Lighthouse is inexpensive but does not integrate all that well with GitHub (basically it just listens to GitHub commit messages) and FogBugz is exceptionally powerful and thus expensive.

I didn’t ignore the rest of the options, but found self-hosted solutions like PHPProjekt aren’t what I need.  My pitiful 2Mbps upstream connection at home really isn’t suitable for hosting much of anything, so I chose to go with an online hosted solution that everyone can get to, whether or not my Internet connection is congested or working.