
Linear reviews
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I’ve used linear at 2 companies now. Overall there’s lots to like about it and it’s my 'Go to' project management tool, but it has some frustrating rough edges that would be nice to see polished! Good/Great: - Generally it has just the right amount of complexity for running small-medium projects. I’ve only really seen it in action within a single team scope - think running larger multi teams projects would be more challenging - The design is opinionated without generally being overly restrictive. At the moment, we switch back and forth between kanban and scrum quite regularly and even then i don’t find it gets in the way too much. - I love the burndown graphs and find them very motivating Areas for improvement: - There are some very frustrating snags around cycle times that i’ve found really get in the way. Basically the best way to do what i want is to run cycles that correspond to the day after we do the cycle and then manually advance it. This is really unintuitive! - If you open a ticket within a project view, it sets the project as the last project not the project you’re in - so confusing! - the number of times people on the team are confused as to why they can’t see tickets and where they’ve gone due to some quirk of the UI is frustrating!
We’ve been using Linear for several months now instead of Jira and no regrets. The product is fast (very fast!), easy to use, lightweight and has a neat UI.
Been a fantastic tool for aligning our team across all the departments. New functionality is continuously being added, only next request is that we can make a Milestone block a Milestone of another project! But overall, we love it.
Been using Linear for during beta time. One of the sexiest UI / UX across productivity tools!
Kudos to the Linear and Figma teams for launching this killer integration! As a big fan of both tools, I'm super excited to streamline my design and engineering workflow with this plugin. 🙌 Can't wait to see how this further enhances collaboration and productivity! Just out of curiosity, any other cool features in the pipeline? Looking forward to seeing what's next. 👀🚀
Fast with a lot of awesome features that devs really appreciate.