2025 BairesDev Developers' Choice Awards

Best Project Management & Collaboration Tools
— Nominees

Developers want to write code, not update ticket statuses or explain what's already documented. The best project management tools work with engineers, not against them. We asked our teams to nominate the tools that keep projects organized without pulling developers out of their flow.

2025 BairesDev Developers' Choice Awards

Jira

Jira

Industry standard for software development with adoption across 80% of the Fortune 500. Native integration with Atlassian tools means epics, backlogs, issues, and code reviews live in the same ecosystem as CI/CD pipelines. Built for agile teams that need full traceability from planning to deployment.

Key Feature

JQL provides SQL-like querying across issues, enabling precise filters and custom dashboards that scale to enterprise workloads.

Linear

Linear

Purpose-built for software teams with a keyboard-first interface optimized for speed. Focuses on issue tracking and project cycles with clean UI and fast performance. Minimal setup overhead with opinionated workflows that prioritize execution over configuration.

Key Feature

Sprint cycles auto-archive finished work and carry incomplete tasks forward without manual cleanup.

Asana

Asana

Full-featured work management platform with multiple views and extensive customization through custom fields and workflow automation. Strong workload management and portfolio oversight make it suitable for cross-functional teams.

Key Feature

Universal reporting pulls data across multiple projects and portfolios into custom dashboards, making it possible to track metrics without switching between boards.

Trello

Trello

Visual project management built on Kanban boards with drag-and-drop simplicity that requires minimal onboarding. Owned by Atlassian, it offers deep integration with Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket while maintaining the lightweight interface that made it popular with both technical and non-technical teams.

Key Feature

Boards, lists, and cards model with zero configuration required makes it possible to start managing work in minutes.

ClickUp

ClickUp

All-in-one productivity platform combining project management with docs, wikis, time tracking, and goals. Offers 15+ view types and extensive customization options. Automation builder with conditional logic handles complex workflows without external tools.

Key Feature

ClickUp Brain integrates AI across the entire platform for task generation, document writing, project updates, and answering questions about work across all connected apps and files.

Monday.com

Monday.com

Highly visual work OS with customizable boards, extensive automation, and 200+ native integrations. Offers multiple view types including Gantt, calendar, and map views. Workload management features help balance team capacity across projects. 24/7 support for enterprise users.

Key Feature

WorkCanvas provides real-time collaborative whiteboarding integrated directly with project boards, enabling ideation and planning without switching to external tools.

Notion

Notion

Flexible workspace combining wikis, databases, and lightweight project management in one tool. Highly customizable with blocks and templates that teams can adapt to their specific processes. Favors documentation and knowledge management alongside task tracking.

Key Feature

Database relations and rollups allow building interconnected systems where tasks, docs, and databases reference each other, creating a unified knowledge base without rigid structure.

Basecamp

Basecamp

Collaboration-focused platform emphasizing communication clarity over feature complexity. Flat-rate pricing covers unlimited users. Hill Charts provide unique visual progress tracking. Automatic check-ins prompt teams for updates without manual reminders.

Key Feature

Message boards replace scattered email threads with structured discussions that stay attached to projects, maintaining conversation history without inbox clutter.

GitHub Projects

GitHub Projects

Planning and tracking built into GitHub with table, board, and roadmap views that work directly with issues and pull requests. Built-in automations and the GraphQL API let teams update fields and tie status to real events from code and reviews.

Key Feature

Timeline roadmaps you can drag to adjust dates and watch progress over time.

Shortcut

Shortcut

GitHub integration automatically updates story status based on branch and PR activity, eliminating manual ticket updates when code moves.

Key Feature

Built-in cycle time and throughput reports reveal where work gets stuck, helping teams identify bottlenecks without exporting to external analytics tools.

Developers' Insights

“

Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket integration makes tracking data pipelines and technical dependencies seamless for agile teams.”

Marcos Conci

Marcos Conci

Growth Automation Associate, BairesDev

7 years of experience

“

Trello is simple and fast”

Federico Emiliani

Federico Emiliani

Tech Lead, BairesDev

17 years of experience

“

I like to have everything centralized in the same place (Epics, Issues, Code repository, Docker registry,CI/CD platform, etc)”

Gustavo Antão

Gustavo Antão

DevOps Squad Leader, BairesDev

25 years of experience

About our Voters.

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Full-Time Engineers

2M+

Annual Applications

10+

Average Years of Experience

We’re a distributed team of over 4,000 full-time, senior-level developers. Every year, over 2 million applications are reviewed to identify the top engineering talent who join BairesDev.

This gives us unparalleled technical coverage and depth. Our teams span over 100 technologies, and we’ve used that expertise across 1,400+ projects since 2009.

For this award, votes in each category were cast by developers with direct, hands-on experience using these tools. These nominations came directly from senior practitioners building software at scale.

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Recognized as a Nominee in the 2025<br/>BairesDev Developers' Choice Awards.

Recognized as a Nominee in the 2025
BairesDev Developers' Choice Awards.

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